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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn /

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Alexis de Tocqueville

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

science

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

happiness

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

success

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

fear

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

experience

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Gustave Flaubert

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

François de La Rochefoucauld

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Michel de Montaigne

death

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Desiderius Erasmus

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre

philosopher

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