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Philologist Inspirational Quotes (1714)

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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
Petrarch
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only Christian work is good work, well done
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
Jacob Burckhardt
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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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God, the immortality of the soul, salvation, the beyond-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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