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Perhaps Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated…
- We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the…
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
- There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a…
- It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us,…
- There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out…
- It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and…
- That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the…
- 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…
- Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an…
- A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is…
- Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
- Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at…
- Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In…
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- 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…
- God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will…
- Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic…
- Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
- Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
- We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the…
- Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing…
- Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what truthfulness is.
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun