Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ist ein Stück Verhängniss, man gehört zum Ganzen, man ist im Ganzen, - es giebt Nichts, was unser Sein richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen könnte, denn das hiesse das Ganze richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen... Aber es giebt Nichts ausser dem Ganzen!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Related Reiten, reiten, reiten, durch den Tag, durch die Nacht, durch den Tag. Reiten, reiten, re... RAINER MARIA RILKE Nein, man spürt nichts. Es fehlt einem eben nur etwas. Und jeden Tag fehlt einem mehr, wenn man dav... MICHAEL ENDE Worte sind die blassen Schatten vergessener Namen. Und wie Namen Macht innewohnt, wohnt auch Worten ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Die älteste Sprache, sagt man, sei das Indogermanische, Indo-europäische, das Sanskrit. Aber es is... THOMAS MANN Wenn ich nur ein Telephon habe, der Wald wird sich finden! Ohne Telephon kann man nur ... KARL KRAUS Es ist für das Franchise sicher das Ende einer Ära ... Es ist das Ende der Ära von Rick Berman , ... DOMINIC KEATING Es ist für das Franchise sicher das Ende einer Ära ... Es ist das Ende der Ära von Rick Berman , ... DOMINIC KEATING Die Art, wie wir unser Leben verbringen, wie wir existieren, unsere Umgebung, das, was wir jeden Tag... JOHN STRELECKY Am Anfang merkt man noch nicht viel davon. Man hat eines Tages keine Lust mehr irgendetwas zu tun. N... MICHAEL ENDE Ich möchte wissen", sagte er vor sich hin, "was eigentlich in einem Buch los ist, solang es zu ist.... MICHAEL ENDE Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke... RENE AUBERJONOIS Erlaube," fuhr Meister Abraham fort, "erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergle... E.T.A. HOFFMANN [D]as Denken an sich gilt nicht mehr als Tugend, sondern als Zeitverschwendung. Es wird von speziali... JULI ZEH Jeder von uns hat zweierlei Geist. Einen wachen Geist und einen schlafenden Geist. Unser wacher Geis... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden... ROBERT MUSIL Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der... J.M. COETZEE Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Im frühen Mittelalter, im Anschluss an die Kreuzzüge, entwickelte sich dann die deutsche Alraunsag... HANNS HEINZ EWERS Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, d... MICHAEL ENDE Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der Apfel blieb, da ihn nie... FRANZ KAFKA Jeder erzählt in seinem eigenen Kopf eine Geschichte über sich. Ununterbrochen. Die ganze Zeit. Un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Was es ist Es ist Unsinn sagt die Vernunft Es ist was es ist sagt die Lieb... ERICH FRIED Die Gesamtheit dieser Produktionsverhältnisse bildet die ökonomische Struktur der Gesellschaft, di... KARL MARX Dein Leben sind Bernhard und die Kinder. Schneide es nicht ab . Wer nur in Abschnitten lebt, dem feh... DANIEL GLATTAUER Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: „Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell.“ Damals sc... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. De... JULI ZEH Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon sch... KURT TUCHOLSKY Das Bild vom Wirtschaftsgeschehen als einem Wettlauf oder Wettkampf ist in seinen Details etwas vers... J.M. COETZEE Siehst Du, Momo", sagte er, "es ist so: Manchmal hat man eine sehr lange Straße vor sich. Man denkt... MICHAEL ENDE Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß... PAULINE DEBOK [...] dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ... JULI ZEH Man kann jemanden nur dann als verrückt bezeichnen, wenn es jemand anderen gibt, der normal ist. Wi... RICK YANCEY ... der Mensch ist dem Menschen das Interessanteste und sollte ihn vielleicht ganz allein interessie... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Rätselhafterweise ist Schriftsteller trotzdem der schönste Beruf der Welt. Mehr als das. Schriftst... JULI ZEH Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Der Kreis des Blutes Vollendung findet, Der Stein der Weisen die Ewigkeit bindet. Im Kleid... KERSTIN GIER „Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Geschichten sind die Essenz des Lebens, Apolonia", sagte er, so ernst wie immer, und sie hatte das G... JENNY-MAI NUYEN Sein, was wir sind, und werden, was wir werden können, das ist das Ziel des Lebens. BARUCH SPINOZA Das wahre Wunder, das ist nicht das Leben. Das Leben gibt es überall, es wimmelt nur so davon. Das ... GILLES LEGARDINIER Der Schmerz, den wir alle über diesen Verlust empfinden, erinnert mich, erinnert uns, daran, dass, ... J.K. ROWLING Die großartigste Fähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes ist vielleicht die, mit Schmerzen fertig zu we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Der Spirit der Mitarbeiter ist wichtiger als das Controlling der Corporate Monkeys. CARSTEN K. RATH Es ist ein Unterschied, ob wir wissen das anderen Menschen Darsteller in unserem Leben sind, oder ob... JOHN STRELECKY Verstehst du, Frauen sind wie Feuer, wie Flammen. Manche Frauen sind wie Kerzen, hell und freundlich... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz, Die das Leben vergänglich zieren! Wer besitzt, der ... FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö... J.M. COETZEE Und manchmal passiert einem das Leben einfach, und man kann ihm nicht ausweichen Es kracht voll in e... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN einige gitarren, ein klavier, mikrophone von der decke, kleine schaumstoffpyramiden an den wänden. ... DAVID RAMIRER Über des Propheten Gebein ist jedes Staubkorn ein Pfeiler von Licht, Aufrecht von der Ku... AL-FAITURI Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is... J.M. COETZEE Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was früher die großen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, de... JULI ZEH Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ... STAR TREK Die Natur ist pragmatisch. Jedes Tier ist pragmatisch. Der Mensch ist es dort, wo ihm die Ideen ausg... JULI ZEH Könnte ich es sagen und lehren, so wäre ich ein Weiser. So aber bin ich nur ein Fährmann und mein... HERMANN HESSE An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the
herd.
[Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nach... JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. I... JENNIFER NIVEN The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
[Ger., Ein ta... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [... JULI ZEH Ein Greenhorn schleppt der Reinlichkeit wegen einen Waschschwamm von der Größe eines Riesenkürbis... KARL MAY Irgendwo war mir ein Rest von Glauben an den freien Willen geblieben, aber an diesem Morgen war ich ... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER auf einem spielplatz im park hat sich ein junges paar auf zwei schaukeln gesetzt und führt ein lang... DAVID RAMIRER Nichts ist stabiler als die Fahrt in den Abgrund. JULI ZEH Ein Traum ist nichts anderes, als eine mögliche Wirklichkeit, die nur darauf wartet, stattzufinden.... JOHN STRELECKY Körperliche Ertüchtigung ist sehr nützlich, aber das geistige Training ist ebenso wichtig. DALAI LAMA XIV Ich selbst spiele nie Billard, [...],aber ich weiß, dass man den Ball hoch oder tief, rechts oder l... ROBERT MUSIL Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...]. JULI ZEH Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist... FRANZ KAFKA Das Leben war schwierig geworden, es gab nichts Großes, an das man glauben, keine Pflichten, die ma... JULI ZEH Magie ist das, was wir tief in uns spüren, wenn wir lächeln CHRISTOPH MARZI Zwischen den Zeilen liest man nur, wenn man weiß, wie es ist, umgeben von Worten und Worten die eig... LILLY LINDNER Wenn du mich küsst, Gwendolyn Shepherd, dann ist das so, als würde ich den Kontakt zum Boden verli... KERSTIN GIER Je bornierter ein System ist, desto mehr wird es den Weltklugen gefallen. NOVALIS Bei den Big Five geht es um die fünf Dinge, die man in seinem Leben tun, sehen oder erleben will, b... JOHN STRELECKY Der feste Beruf auf Lebenszeit [...] ist ein Produkt der Industrialisierung. SASCHA LOBO Der Mensch ist taub und blind gegen die Welt, aber er spürt es wie Rheuma, wenn ihn etwas am Schick... JULI ZEH Oh, oh. Gerade habe ich mir noch ein Wolf gelacht, aber jetzt starre ich fassungslos auf den Hipster... NINA MACKAY Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendw... DAVID GRAY Sich mit diesem oder jenem zu identifizieren, ist also ein normaler Vorgang. Gefährlich wird es, so... NAVID KERMANI Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blüh'n, Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen glüh'n, Ein ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE So sind die Dinge manchmal. Wenn alles am schlimmsten ist, dann wirft der Verstand alles in einen Pa... RICHARD BACHMAN Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which
the intention is so clearly evident... EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Sollte ein Muggel so unklug sein, einem anderen anzuvertrauen, er habe einen Hippogreif gesehen, der... NEWT SCAMANDER Denn wenn man an alle Völker der Erde die Aufforderung ergehen liesse, sich unter all den verschied... HERODOTUS Was uns in der Hölle quält, ist unser Festhalten an einer einmal gewählten Identität. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht... RICHARD VON WEIZSäCKER Nein, fair ist das nicht, aber dass die Erde sich wie die Hölle anfühlt, liegt an unserer Erwartun... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit;
What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.
[Ger.... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als e... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeb... RAINER MARIA RILKE Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Sp... JULI ZEH Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir ... KURT TUCHOLSKY Das Meer war ein lebendiges Wesen, so unberechenbar wie ein großer Theaterschauspieler: es konnte r... CECELIA AHERN Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, d... THEODOR FONTANE (...) Achtet immer darauf, das Gleichgewicht zwischen Kopf und Herz zu wahren. (...) Alw... COLLEEN HOOVER Das gute Buch macht den Menschen einzigartig und befreit ihm aus der Menge. Es gibt ihm die Möglich... DAVID GROSSMAN Da kam noch einmal – ein einziges Mal – durch das Schweigen der Nacht das süße Seufzen wieder ... EDGAR ALLAN POE
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price . This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE