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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,783 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,983 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,913 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,218 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,369 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,230 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,018 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,534 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,811 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,943 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,706 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,205 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,110 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,058 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,587 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,594 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,265 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,920 people liked it

"Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

8 people liked it

"Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Portable Nietzsche)

tags: romance
11 people liked it

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

12 people liked it

"As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: -, beyond, evil, good
9 people liked it

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: ant-christ, atheism, philosophy, religion
13 people liked it

"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)

tags: comfort, friederich, nietzsche, suicide, thought
5 people liked it

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, philosophy
6 people liked it

"Battle not
with monsters,
lest ye become
a monster,

and if you gaze
into the abyss,
the abyss gazes
also into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

6 people liked it

"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

13 people liked it

"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

4 people liked it

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

7 people liked it

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: boredom, life
6 people liked it

"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dancing, inspirational
4 people liked it

"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

6 people liked it

"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

5 people liked it

"Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

5 people liked it

""Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None)

8 people liked it

"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. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ)

6 people liked it

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3 people liked it

"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: life
10 people liked it

"He who has a why to live can bare almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

4 people liked it

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: arrogance, inspirational, philosphy
3 people liked it

"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strategy, virtue
4 people liked it

"Dangerous books.— Somebody remarked: “I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

5 people liked it

"The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

6 people liked it

"a nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: nietzsche, philosophy
5 people liked it

"A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: character, experience, meat
4 people liked it

"Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time that someone else. Hours in which honesty is permitted have become rare, and when they arrive one is tired and does not only want to "let oneself go" but actually wishes to stretch out as long and wide and ungainly as one happens to be... Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking a walk with ideas and friends) without self-contempt and a bad conscience."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Gay Science)

tags: living
5 people liked it

"Every talent must unfold itself in fighting"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

4 people liked it

"What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on, I can no longer believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3 people liked it

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None)

12 people liked it

"How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

5 people liked it

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