(104 quotes found)
“So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman”
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”
“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.”
“No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.”
“One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.”
“To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task”
“Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”