Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Wisdom
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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.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?
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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
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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.
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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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