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Quotes by Philosopher
"Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance."
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"It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst."
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"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
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"The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
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"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
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"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win."
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"Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time."
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"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."
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"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. There upon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
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"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
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"Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
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"All those big words produce disgust today."
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"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."
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"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
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"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."
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"When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?"
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"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."
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"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
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"I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine."
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"Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!"
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"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
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"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!"
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"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."
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"The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. " A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short."
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"A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, "We did this ourselves."
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"Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener."
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"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."
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"To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight."
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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
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"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
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"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
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"Drop the idea that you need to be perfect. You are already complete."
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"Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it."
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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