Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them."
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Words Of Wisdom
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Socrates
Philosopher
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"If the truth shall kill them, let them die."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical."
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"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough."
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"Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!"
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"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
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"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with"
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"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
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"The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money."
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"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
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"Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased."
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"And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are."
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"Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence."
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""All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering."
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"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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"What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion."
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"Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words."
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"Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten."
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"The solution to your problem is to see who has it."
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"Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease."
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"There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink."
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"The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free."
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"It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development."
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