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Duty Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
- All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations…
- Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
- One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of…
- If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into…
- The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable…
- Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant…
- No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when…
- It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint…
- The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The…
- What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a…
More Duty Quotes
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss… — Charles Babbage
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in… — John Banville
- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir