"In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em."

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"

Carnegie, Dale on ideas
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"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."

Child, Lydia M. on caution   

"The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics."

Rorty, Richard on philosophers and philosophy   

"Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great."

Morris, Tom on influence
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"Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on theory   

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

Carlyle, Thomas on greatness   

"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wit
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"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wisdom
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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on brevity
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"Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on bores and boredom
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"Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on books - reading   

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on strength
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on strategies
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sports
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"Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on speakers and speaking   

"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on self-control
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"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on resentment
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on certainty
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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on chastity
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on walking
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"You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are."

Arrington, Eva on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on thoughts and thinking
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"The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on truth
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"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on time
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"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on technology   

"All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on taste   

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on religion
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