Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Not necessity, not desire - no...
Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:
German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Quotes about health:
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Quotes about power:
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Quotes for: Desire
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
Quotes for: necessity
Article XVII – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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