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Philologist Inspirational Quotes (1709)

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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
Al-Jahiz
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Animals engage in a struggle for existence for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.
Al-Jahiz
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Al-Jahiz
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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred No even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
Yuri Lotman
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Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.
Yuri Lotman
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent
Friedrich Nietzsche
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