Quotes About Wisdom

Oh, como somos felizes, nós que procuramos o conhecimento, se não quebrarmos o silêncio prematuramente!...

When I came to men, then found I them resting on an old infatuation: all of them thought they had long known what was good and bad for men.

Excelsior! You will never again pray, never again repose in limitless trust - you deny it to yourself to remain halted before an ultimate wisdom, ultimate good, ultimate power, and there unharness your thoughts

We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

My wisdom consists in my having been many things and in many places in order to become one person—in order to be able to attain to one thing.

When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it.

In warring against stupidity, the most just and gentle of men at last become brutal.

the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.

Take care not to spit against the wind!

Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice. Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6

to be sure: except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into that kingdom of heaven [and Zarathustra pointed upward with his hands]. but we have no wish whatever to enter into the kingdom of heaven: we have become men — so we want the earth.

Hay quien no encuentra su corazón hasta que no pierde la cabeza.

From the practice of wise men.—To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301

Die Dummheit der Guten ist unergründlich klug.

And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." ? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

No matter how strongly a thing may be believed, strength of belief is no criterion of truth.' But what is truth? Perhaps a kind of belief that has become a condition of life?

Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.

Wouldn't thinking have put over on us the biggest hoax yet?

Conditions for God.-1' God himself cannot subsist without wise men, said Luther, and with good reason ; but God can still less subsist without unwise men,-good Luther did not say that!