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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

1844–1900

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."

"'Why, you sad son-of-a-bitch, how can you be so cocky and stand there and block cars when you're nothing but a miserable bear and a black bear at that - not even a polar or a grizzly or anything worth while.'"

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1831

"To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them."

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🇦🇺William Shakespeare

Literature

English Renaissance

1948–2010

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"

""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

"The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave."

"Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility."

"Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!"

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"You become what you give your attention to."

154 quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

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🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"My object in this chapter is solely to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties."

"...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is—nothing."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. (22 October 1846)"

"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."

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🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn."

"The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions."

"Hume Society: An international scholarly society."

"Follow the seasons of Ha,Ride in the state carriage of Yau,Wear the ceremonial cap of Chan,Let the music be the Shiu with its pantomimes."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."

"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

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