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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age o...
DON MARQUIS Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or...
CATHERINE CROWE Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru...
MARK TWAIN Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixation...
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MARK TWAIN He makes me graceful, that's his skill. He makes me sexy, because that's what he is. He makes me fee...
E.L. JAMES Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or l...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires wer...
BERTRAND RUSSELL You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he s...
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DR. ELMER HESS Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on ea...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE His whole career is he'll walk some guys, but he makes the big pitch to get out of the inning.
BOB MELVIN Murray is one of those guys you can rely on to come out and give 100 per cent every time he plays, s...
PHIL KEINZLEY He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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OSCAR WILDE The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o...
HENRY MILLER The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven
JOHN MILTON To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not...
BRUNO DUMONT An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and h...
ALEC GUINNESS If he makes all his starts, with his stuff, there's no reason why he can't win upwards of 15-to-20 g...
BUD BLACK Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
JAMES B. CONANT Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
JAMES BRYANT CONANT Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
JAMES BRYANT CONANT Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
JAMES BRYANT CONANT As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No...
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MARK TWAIN Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his h...
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HILARY MANTEL By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying...
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WILLIAM LAW By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the per...
MARK TWAIN He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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JAMES A. MICHENER The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
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DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is.
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CHARLES LAMB Believe it or not, he has dedicated his life and his ideal to his country and to his nation.
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GORE VIDAL The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persev...
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KEANU REEVES He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing fa...
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Having realiz...
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GAIL HAMILTON place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with mai...
CONFUCIUS The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
ALEXANDER CHASE He is like a shell of who he is and this machine is pumping out his lungs.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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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.
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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.
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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 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...
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