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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions Dangerous Foes Lies
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Individual Morality Instinct Herd
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Because Cause Cease Faithful
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
About Also Conceal Means
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Able Also Enemies Friends
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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.

Cannot Climb Dance Day
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Feeling Good Heightens Itself
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Create Father Good Good Father
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Forget Form Purpose One's
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Body Deepest More Philosophy
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Conceived Great Thoughts Truly
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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.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Heaven Interesting Interesting People Missing
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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life Mistake Music Without
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Alone Best Deeply Had
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Bad Christian Find Made
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Cure Love Pair Person
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ah Frequent Higher Highs
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Determine Future Ground Hierarchy
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Art is the proper task of life.

Art Life Proper Task
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Another Each Gets His
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Boldly Indignant Lies Man
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Able Climb Either Higher
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Better Blessed Blunders Even
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art Die Order Truth
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Cease Interest Persons Shock
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Care Fear Man Who
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Best Everything Evil Necessary
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Condemns He Man Ready
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Children Doll Girl Her
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Battles Enemy Fear Hundred
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Beloved Children Death Deepest
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Battles Breaking Conquer Consists
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Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Attack Enemy Importance Strategy
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Conquer Evolved Men None
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Advances Country Disgrace Fame
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Director Even Extremely Fate
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
Benevolent Commander Fame Good
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Fight He Knows Who
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Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Complete Doubt Earth Enemy
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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Believe Enemy Far Him
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Quickness is the essence of the war.

Essence Quickness War Smart
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Instance Nation Prolonged Warfare
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Angels Changed Devils Humility
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The greatest evil is physical pain.

Evil Greatest Pain Physical
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Begin Clouds Descending First
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