You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star
German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.
Man is the cruelest animal
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago
We are not makers of history, We are made by history
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach
Silence is the best cure for the malady of anger
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle
The human being obtains some of his misfortunes by failing to attend to his own comfort.
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion
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