Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Fun Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

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The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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