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Philologist Inspirational Quotes (1714)

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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: Die at the right time!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am alone again and I want to be so alone with the pure sky and open sea.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
Petrarch
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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