Famous Quotes - Tags - Classical Scholar
- ... Ma hiatus between two nothings— ... More
- A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. More
- A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table... More
- A few hours’ mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures.... More
- A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. More
- A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. More
- A good aphorism is too hard for the teeth of time and is not eaten up by all the centuries, even... More
- A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent’s courage and your onlooker’s heart—what... More
- A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. More
- A great man’s followers are accustomed to blinding themselves so they can sing his praises better. More
- A letter is an unannounced visit, and the postman is the intermediary of impolite surprises.... More
- A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy. More
- A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things:... More
- A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. More
- A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play. More
- A martyr’s disciples suffer more than the martyr. More
- A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.—What was that god thinking who counseled,... More
- A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very... More
- A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.—Yes, and then to get around them. More
- A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day... More
- A person is far more likely to appear to have sound character because he persistently follows his... More
- A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong... More
- A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone... More
- A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no... More
- A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the... More
- A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has... More
- A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous... More
- A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it... More
- A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and, along with this, three or four good friends—such... More
- A soul that knows it is loved but does not love in return betrays its dregs:Mwhat is at the... More
- A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a... More
- A vocation is the backbone of life. More
- A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which... More
- A woman’s pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person’s bed to the public marketplace. More
- A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is... More
- About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from... More
- About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake—whether we have a good or a bad... More
- Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, “This alone is what I will to be!” Hang your own... More
- Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, “know thyself,” but as if... More
- Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. More
- After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave—a tremendous,... More
- Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain. More
- Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its... More
- Alas! The time is coming when man will no longer give birth to stars. Alas! The time of the most... More
- Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think. More
- All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. More
- All good things are strong inducements to life, even that good book written to attack life. More
- All good things were previously wicked things; every original sin has become an original virtue. More
- All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the... More
- All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes... More
- All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as... More
- All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were... More
- All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. More
- All the names of good and evil are parables: they do not declare, but only hint. Whoever among... More
- All the sciences are now under an obligation to prepare for the future task of philosopher, which... More
- All those who dwell in the depths find their happiness in being like flying fish for once and... More
- All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. More
- All “it was” is a fragment, a riddle, a horrible accident—until the creative will declares:... More
- Almost everything we call “higher culture” is based on the spiritualization of cruelty, on... More
- Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon... More
- Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate... More
- Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced... More
- Among austere men intimacy involves shame—and is something precious. More
- Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. More
- Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church... More
- Among women.—”The truth? Oh, you don’t really know what ‘the truth’ is! Isn’t it an... More
- Amor fati: that shall henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war against the ugly. I do not... More
- An aphorism, honestly stamped and molded, has not yet been “deciphered” once we have read it... More
- An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises. More
- And as for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it? More
- And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and... More
- And how politely the bitch “sensuality” knows how to beg for a piece of spirit when she is... More
- And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. More
- And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman... More
- And nobody lies as much as the indignant do. More
- And perhaps a great day will come, when a people distinguished by war and victory, by the highest... More
- And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be... More
- And so let my proposition be understood and pondered: history can be borne only by strong... More
- And so while dreams are the individual man’s play with reality, the sculptor’s art is (in a... More
- And what was too nasty to feed a dog—that is precisely what you threw down before your god. Did... More
- And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute... More
- Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. More
- Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that... More
- Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. More
- Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in... More
- Anyone who has ever constructed a “new heaven” has discovered the power to do it nowhere but... More
- Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?—In the... More
- Are you one who looks on? Or one who lends a hand?—Or one who looks away, steps aside? ...... More
- Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around... More
- Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight. More
- As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional... More
- As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more... More
- As regards the celebrated “struggle for life,” it seems to me for the present to have been... More
- As soon as a religion comes to dominate, it has as its opponents all those who would have been... More
- As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though... More
- As soon as we exceed average human goodness by even a single step, our actions arouse suspicion.... More
- As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality... More
- Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives... More
- Association with other people corrupts our character Mespecially when we have none. More
- Assuming that rapture is nature’s play with man, the Dionysian artist’s creative activity is... More
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