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Philologist Inspirational Quotes (1709)

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The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.
Jacob Burckhardt
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Youth is an unpleasant period for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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