"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

Hegel, Georg on scholars and scholarship   

"If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die."

Hegel, Georg on service   

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on existence
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fathers
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on feminism
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational."

Hegel, Georg on reason   

"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."

Hegel, Georg on philosophers and philosophy
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"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."

Hegel, Georg on passion
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"Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases."

Marx, Karl on medicine   

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

Marx, Karl on necessity   

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

Marx, Karl on pain
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance."

Socrates on evil
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"Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates on happiness
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth"

Socrates on truth
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"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."

Socrates on slander
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."

Hegel, Georg on education
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

Hegel, Georg on freedom   

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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."

Hegel, Georg on generalizations   

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on the future
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"Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on philosophers and philosophy
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on purpose
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