I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Related I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes ... BIBLE You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. Y... ELLEN HOPKINS Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in ... GEORGE MACDONALD My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not sta... THOMAS BECKET And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead; nay, (they are) alive, but you do no... QURAN You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. LAO TZU All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and ... BIBLE Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the fr... FRIDA KAHLO And now, my beloved brethren, and also aJew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words ... BOOK OF MORMON The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel... WALT WHITMAN The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel... WALT WHITMAN For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: / But even after t... BIBLE Do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley? / And that they say that which the... QURAN I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget. AESCHYLUS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who belie... JEFF MILLER I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse... TIM TEBOW You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole t... GLEN COOK Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. HENRY FORD To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those who always speak well of women do not know them sufficiently; those who always speak ill of th... GUILLAUME PIGUALT-LEBRUN And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. BIBLE It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action... DESMOND TUTU The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have ... JOSE MARTI a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ... CHARLES SPURGEON Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way. ... FREDERICK BUECHNER Many people define who they are, based upon what the world sees when it looks at them. They build th... C. JOYBELL C. I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pu... TOMMY LASORDA The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the... MICHAEL CONNELLY If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; ... GEORGE WHITEFIELD Then they turned to themselves and said: Surely you yourselves are the unjust; / Then they were made... QURAN Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they beco... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, ... BIBLE Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, a... BIBLE They it is who say: Do not spend upon those who are with the Apostle of Allah until they break up. A... QURAN People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not. MARTHA PLIMPTON And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? / And they... BIBLE The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not... GAVIN HOOD The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not... GAVID HOOD Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Jesus declared, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63... ANDREW WOMMACK Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
my Father: but go to by brethren,... BIBLE People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believ... GEORGE MACDONALD Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves ... DOUGLAS WILDER Have you not seen those who have become hypocrites? They say to those of their brethren who disbelie... QURAN Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am "sincere" or "insincere"? What does th... WITOLD GOMBROWICZ Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth h... JOAN HALIFAX Speaking in Creations tongues, hearing Creations voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has... JOAN HALIFAX I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concen... MARK HADDON World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national is... DENIS HEALEY The way (to blame) is only against those who ask permission of you though they are rich; they have c... QURAN Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. SHANNON L. ALDER It's a tool that works whether you believe it or not. The only people who don't treat it with respec... HENRY WEINGARTEN You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN I believe people love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experienc... FRANK SPOTNITZ I'm a faithful Catholic, but they are not my voice. They are a small number of Catholics who have li... MAURICE HEALY In case of religion, if there is no scientific evidence of such a thing, you should not judge those ... DANIEL MELGAçO He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don't really know Him.... CRAIG GROESCHEL And if your Lord had pleased, surely all those who are in the earth would have believed, all of them... QURAN And apostles before you were certainly mocked at, but I gave respite to those who disbelieved, then ... QURAN I don't know where you have to go or what you have to do, but I'll wait for you, John. Every bit of ... PITTACUS LORE We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. SAMUEL JOHNSON Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. Th... CRISS JAMI The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from o... GRACE SARA Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or ... RICHARD DE BURY We all have a duty to define who we are SOTONYE ANGA Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do b... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you ... EMILY PROCTER They don't know whether they do or do not contain active ingredients, whether they're sub-potent, wh... STEVE NIEDELMAN Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know y... ROSALIA DE CASTRO And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that... BIBLE You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right HENRY FORD Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so... KIM EDWARDS I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or... AVA DELLAIRA I do not care what your beliefs are; whether they are religious, scientific, theological, taboo; it ... CASEY BRYANT I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish yo... RICHARD GREENBERG Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negat... ROB LIANO You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are... AMIRI BARAKA Simply by watching them, you can't know whether whales are male or female, their age, whether they a... HIDEKI MORONUKI We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl... JOHN LEWIS People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the jo... CECELIA AHERN And those who disbelieve say concerning those who believe: If it had been a good, they would not hav... QURAN And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that p... BIBLE What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not... PLATO There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI My favorite is Matthew 25: 'The Lord said, 'Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you... CHRIS SMITH Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There ... BILL DIXON Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it ... NEILS BOHR Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whe... A.A. PATAWARAN
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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