Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, School Quotes, Doe Quotes

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

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Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

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One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

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He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

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Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

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Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

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