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Wish Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would…
- One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
- This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob…
- A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But…
- Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.
- To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most…
- If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
- If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
- Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative…
- The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls…
- He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
- What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
- I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal,…
- The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.
- if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of…
- one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
- We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will…
- You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
- Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a…
- Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me.…
- I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make…
- Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a…
- From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have leftthe town can…
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius