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+Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
+Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
+To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
+He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
+The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
+Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
+Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health
+Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
+Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
+The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
+Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
+The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
+95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
+A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
+Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
+It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
+Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
+Criticism is something we can avoid easily
+by saying nothing, doing nothing,
+and being nothing.
+At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
+A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
+Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
+The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
+The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
+Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
+True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
+The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
+Doubt is the beginning of wisdom
+The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
+Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
+The best things are placed between extremes.
+Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
+Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
+The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
+We can't learn without pain.
+Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
+We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
+Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
+Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
+The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
+Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.
+He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
+The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
+Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
+You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
+Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
+If something's bound to happen, it will
+happen.. Right time, right person, and for
+the best reason.
+Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
+A friend of everyone is a friend of no one
+What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
+Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
+It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
+Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind
+Character is revealed through action.
+Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
+The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
+The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
+One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
+For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
+First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
+Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
+When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
+I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
+He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
+Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.
+No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
+Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
+Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
+The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
+The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
+Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
+Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
+Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
+The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
+Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
+The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
+The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.
+Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
+The hardest victory is the victory over self.
+Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
+Fortune favours the bold.
+You are what you repeatedly do
+Your happiness depends on you alone.
+Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
+Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
+Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
+The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
+The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
+Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
+They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
+Through discipline comes freedom.
+The quality of life is determined by its activities.
+What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.
+Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
+All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
+A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.
+The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
+You can never learn anything that you did not already know
+There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
+Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
+It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
+Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
+We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
+It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
+Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
+We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
+Peace is more difficult than war.
+You are what you do repeatedly.
+Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
+The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
+To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn
+Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
+The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
+Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.
+A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
+Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
+Love well, be loved and do something of value.
+Happiness is a state of activity.
+Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
+Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
+The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
+Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
+Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
+The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
+Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
+Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance
+To love someone is to identify with them.
+He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
+All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
+Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
+It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
+Philosophy begins with wonder.
+Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
+Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
+We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
+At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
+It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
+The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
+A promise made must be a promise kept.
+Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.
+Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
+There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
+Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
+The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
+The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.
+Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
+Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
+All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
+The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
+Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
+A gentleman is not disturbed by anything
+He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
+It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
+Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
+The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
+Hope is a waking dream.
+It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
+Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
+All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
+Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
+It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
+The end of labor is to gain leisure.
+The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
+Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
+A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
+There is honor in being a dog.
+If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
+Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
+God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
+Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.
+Nature does nothing in vain.
+The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
+Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
+It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
+Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
+Authority is no source for Truth.
+People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
+Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
+What we expect, that we find.
+We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
+We work to earn our leisure.
+Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
+Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
+Wit is well-bred insolence.
+Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
+He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
+Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
+If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
+Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
+Happiness is the reward of virtue.
+It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
+The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
+We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
+It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
+What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
+If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development
+If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
+Man is by nature a political animal.
+The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
+The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
+Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
+A friend is another I.
+The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
+Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
+The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
+Our characters are the result of our conduct.
+The soul never thinks without a picture.
+Perception starts with the eye.
+There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
+The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
+Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
+My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
+To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.
+We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
+Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
+Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
+Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
+Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
+We are what we do.
+Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
+He who hath many friends hath none.
+No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
+By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
+The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
+Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
+Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
+No one loves the man whom he fears.
+Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.
+For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
+Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
+It is no easy task to be good.
+Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
+Worms are the intestines of the earth.
+True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
+The hand is the tool of tools.
+Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
+We are what we frequently do.
+A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
+Beauty is the gift of God
+Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
+Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
+To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
+Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
+Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
+The complete man must work, study and wrestle.
+The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
+Well begun is half done.
+Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
+A person's life persuades better than his word.
+All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there�s too much corruption in the world
+For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.
+A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
+Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
+It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
+Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
+Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
+Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
+The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
+Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
+Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.
+Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
+He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
+A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
+One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
+Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
+You should never think without an image.
+The actuality of thought is life.
+Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
+The greatest victory is over self.
+Wickedness is nourished by lust.
+Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
+All proofs rest on premises.
+Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
+When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
+When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
+Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
+Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
+Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
+Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
+For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
+The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
+Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.
+Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
+Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
+The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
+Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
+We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
+Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
+There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
+We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
+Memory is the scribe of the soul.
+Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
+The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
+Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
+Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
+To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
+Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
+Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
+Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
+A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
+That which is excellent endures.
+The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
+A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
+For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
+Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
+Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
+Law is mind without reason.
+Those who act receive the prizes.
+Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
+That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
+A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
+We are what we continually do.
+Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
+Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
+The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
+Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness
+Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
+What soon grows old? Gratitude.
+Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
+Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
+Wonder implies the desire to learn.
+Bad men are full of repentance.
+Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.
+It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
+When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
+It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
+The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
+The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
+Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
+There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
+The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
+Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
+Nothing is what rocks dream about
+The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
+The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
+There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.
+The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
+Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
+It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
+In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
+PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
+Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
+For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
+Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
+To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
+Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
+Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
+The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
+Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
+The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
+Philosophy can make people sick.
+Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
+It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
+The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure
+The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
+The intention makes the crime.
+Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
+One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
+Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
+Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
+The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
+How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
+A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
+Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
+Education is the best provision for old age.
+All men by nature desire knowledge.
+Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
+The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
+But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?
+All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
+Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
+Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
+A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
+The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
+Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
+To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
+Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
+Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
+The law is reason unaffected by desire.
+Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
+Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
+The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
+Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
+The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.

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+It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
+All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
+The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
+The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
+A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
+A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
+We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
+Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
+Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
+A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
+Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
+Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
+If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
+The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
+Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
+The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
+We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
+The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
+The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
+Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
+The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
+You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
+What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
+Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
+To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
+Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
+Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
+He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
+I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
+A happy life is impos�si�ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
+It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
+If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
+Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
+The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
+Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
+We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
+I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
+Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
+Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
+Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
+After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
+We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
+If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
+There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
+To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
+To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
+Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
+Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
+Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
+Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
+We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
+If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
+Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
+The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
+Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
+The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
+The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
+What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
+In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
+Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
+Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
+The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
+Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
+Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
+Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
+Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
+When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
+The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
+Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
+No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
+Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
+Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
+Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
+Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
+Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.
+If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
+What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
+Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
+Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
+A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
+Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
+Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
+That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
+The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.
+The deep pain that is felt
+at the death of every friendly soul
+arises from the feeling that there is
+in every individual something
+which is inexpressible,
+peculiar to him alone,
+and is, therefore,
+absolutely and irretrievably lost.
+Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
+The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
+Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
+Life without pain has no meaning.
+Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
+All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
+Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
+Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
+It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
+One should use common words to say uncommon things
+To be alone is the fate of all great minds�a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
+Life is a constant process of dying.
+Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
+The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
+Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
+The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
+There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
+The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
+Scoundrels are always sociable.
+A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
+People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
+The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
+This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
+The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
+However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.
+No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
+Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
+In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
+The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
+What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
+There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
+This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
+I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
+The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
+Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
+Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
+If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
+Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
+There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
+Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
+Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
+Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
+Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
+Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
+There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
+Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
+A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
+A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
+The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
+If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
+We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
+It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer
+There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.
+Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
+Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
+I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
+Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
+First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
+It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.
+With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
+Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
+Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
+Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
+Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
+Everybody's friend is nobody's.
+Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.
+I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
+Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
+Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.
+Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.
+There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.
+Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.
+The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
+Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.
+Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.
+Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
+Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
+Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
+That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!
+Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
+Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
+I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
+Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
+Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
+To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
+Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!
+The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
+There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
+How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
+To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
+There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
+Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.
+Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
+Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.
+The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
+To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and�though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
+The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
+(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
+Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
+The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.
+I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
+If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.
+The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of
+it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
+A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
+Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
+Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
+The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
+In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
+There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
+If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
+Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
+A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
+If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.
+It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
+Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
+Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
+For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.
+The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
+Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
+Compassion is the basis of morality.
+The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
+To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
+Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
+For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
+No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.
+Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
+Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
+For our improvement we need a mirror.
+To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
+A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
+Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
+Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
+When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.
+In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
+If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
+No one can transcend their own individuality.
+As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
+It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
+Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
+Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
+Human life must be some form of mistake.
+It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
+universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
+To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.
+That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
+Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
+Each day is a little life.
+We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
+They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
+What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
+Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other
+Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
+A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
+A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
+The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
+If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
+Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
+Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
+What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
+Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
+Time is that in which all things pass away.
+Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
+Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.
+The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
+To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
+In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
+A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
+To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
+Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
+For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.
+Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
+In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
+Pride is an established conviction of one�s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
+There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
+If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?
+Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
+If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
+I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
+Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
+Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
+I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
+Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
+True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
+If life � the craving for which is the very essence of our being � were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
+What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
+A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
+Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
+To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
+Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
+To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
+The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
+Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
+Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
+One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
+It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.
+The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
+The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
+It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
+Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
+The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
+Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
+Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
+In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
+I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
+Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
+Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
+The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.
+Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
+The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
+Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
+No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
+It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
+Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
+Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
+He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
+He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
+With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
+To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
+If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much � and then performed so little.
+Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
+The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
+The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain� Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
+A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
+For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
+Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
+Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
+All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
+A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
+We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
+If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
+Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
+As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.
+Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
+To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
+The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.
+Money is human happiness in the abstract.
+Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
+Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
+A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
+Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
+Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
+Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
+For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
+The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
+[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
+It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
+A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.
+A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
+The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
+The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
+How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
+It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
+Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
+Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
+We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
+Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.
+Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
+All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
+My body and my will are one.
+The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
+Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
+Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
+Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
+Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
+When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
+The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.
+Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
+One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
+Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
+There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to
+them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
+Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
+Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.
+Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
+Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
+There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
+Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
+In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.
+The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
+It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
+The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
+Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
+That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
+There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
+Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
+It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
+It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
+Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer�s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.
+Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
+Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.
+If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.
+Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
+Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.
+There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
+Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
+Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
+To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
+If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
+It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
+The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
+Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
+Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.
+Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.
+As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.
+Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
+Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
+There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
+Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu� ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
+It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
+Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
+The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
+The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
+It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
+What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
+Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.
+The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

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+There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
+Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
+I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
+There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
+Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
+And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
+To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
+You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
+Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
+I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
+All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
+Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
+No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
+Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
+That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
+The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
+What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
+The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
+I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
+In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
+Everything matters. Nothing's important.
+Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
+Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
+If you know the why, you can live any how.
+Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
+He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
+Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
+Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
+The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
+Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
+The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
+Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
+There are no facts, only interpretations.
+you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
+It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
+One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
+Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
+Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don�t throw away the best of yourself.
+To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
+My solitude doesn�t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
+Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
+They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
+The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
+When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
+Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
+If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
+The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
+Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
+The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
+Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
+One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
+Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
+Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
+Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
+The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
+There's no defense against stupidity.
+I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
+So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
+Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
+One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
+The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
+I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
+Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
+The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
+He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
+The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.
+There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
+Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
+Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
+There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
+We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
+And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
+There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
+What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
+Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
+You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
+I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
+Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
+The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
+When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
+Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
+The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
+People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.
+To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
+For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
+He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
+All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
+One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
+The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
+The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
+In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
+Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
+In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
+And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
+Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
+Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
+I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
+It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
+All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
+When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
+Amor Fati � �Love Your Fate�, which is in fact your life.
+Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became �geniuses� (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
+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.
+No journey is too great,
+when one finds what one seeks.
+But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
+Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
+We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
+It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
+...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
+In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
+In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
+Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
+What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
+What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
+I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
+Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
+We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
+Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
+I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
+The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
+For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
+People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
+But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep � into the evil.
+When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
+Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
+The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
+The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
+Without music, life would be a mistake.
+We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
+When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
+Every profound spirit needs a mask.
+Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
+The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
+All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
+By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
+What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
+The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
+When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
+Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
+Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
+Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
+Become who you are!
+In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
+It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
+What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
+If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
+Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
+What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
+There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
+Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
+Beware of spitting against the wind!
+No artist tolerates reality.
+Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
+But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.
+One should steal only where one cannot rob.
+The lie is a condition of life.
+After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
+Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
+One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
+What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
+The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
+Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
+Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
+I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
+To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
+We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
+Fear is the mother of morality.
+At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
+But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
+In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
+A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
+The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
+Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
+What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
+the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
+To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
+One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
+Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
+There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
+Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
+A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
+The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
+My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal
+What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
+Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself
+Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
+There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
+Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
+Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
+He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap
+On every parable you ride to every truth.
+Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
+The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
+Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
+There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
+For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
+Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
+I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
+It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
+The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
+The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
+Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
+I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous � a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
+Success has always been a great liar.
+Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest
+A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
+What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
+The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
+"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
+One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
+But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
+The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
+Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
+Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
+It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
+A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
+I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
+Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
+Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
+Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
+Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
+was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
+Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.
+I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
+There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
+A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
+Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
+Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
+I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
+The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
+To have and to want more that is life.
+Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
+When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
+Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
+Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
+We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
+Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
+Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
+... 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.
+My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
+You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
+You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
+Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
+The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
+Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
+Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
+Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
+Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
+Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
+What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

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+Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
+We learn from history that we do not learn from history
+To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
+Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
+To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
+Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
+What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
+As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.
+The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.
+God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
+War is progress, peace is stagnation.
+I have the courage to be mistaken.
+If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
+Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.
+Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.
+The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
+Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
+Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.
+The more certain our knowledge the less we know.
+In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
+Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
+The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
+Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.
+Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
+The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
+Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
+The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
+An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
+Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
+Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
+Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
+America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
+Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
+Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
+The true is the whole.
+An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
+When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
+History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
+A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
+The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
+Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
+Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
+No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
+All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
+Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
+Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.
+The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
+It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
+To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
+India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
+We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.
+The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
+Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.
+God is the absolute truth...
+Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
+Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
+We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
+Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
+Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
+The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
+The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
+When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.
+Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.
+We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
+World history is a court of judgment.
+Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.
+Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
+People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
+Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
+What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
+The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
+The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
+The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
+The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.
+What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.
+Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
+Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
+The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
+The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.
+The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
+For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.
+Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
+All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...
+To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
+There are Plebes in all classes.
+The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it
+The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.
+Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.
+The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
+To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
+Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
+It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.
+The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
+To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
+The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.
+The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
+The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
+Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.
+It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
+Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.
+When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
+It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
+Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.
+Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
+Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
+Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.
+Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.
+Philosophy is the history of philosophy.
+It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
+Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
+The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.
+History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
+Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
+Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
+The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.
+If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master�passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.
+In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.
+Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite
+Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
+What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
+History as the slaughter-bench
+What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.
+Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.
+The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
+We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and � if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it � we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.
+...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.
+Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
+In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
+The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
+The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.