Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?
Friedrich Nietzsche
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We are always in our own company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A profession is the backbone of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
. . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
Oscar Wilde
I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Amor Fati – 'Love Your Fate', which is in fact your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
Oscar Wilde
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Oscar Wilde
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei
Out of passions grow opinions, mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.
Oscar Wilde
This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!
Friedrich Nietzsche
What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything that one thinks about a lot becomes problematic.
Friedrich Nietzsche
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Oscar Wilde
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
Oscar Wilde
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. Eliot
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Oscar Wilde
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
Oscar Wilde
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.
Oscar Wilde
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Oscar Wilde
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.
Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
Oscar Wilde
Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Oscar Wilde
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.
Oscar Wilde
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
Oscar Wilde
Divorces are made in heaven.
Oscar Wilde
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
Oscar Wilde
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde
Being natural is simply a pose.
Oscar Wilde
When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
Oscar Wilde
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
Oscar Wilde
But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
Michael Jordan
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: 'I wish I had said that.' Whistler: 'You will, Oscar; you will.
Oscar Wilde
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wilde
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Thomas Jefferson
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde
Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Genius is born--not paid.
Oscar Wilde
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
Oscar Wilde
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it.
Oscar Wilde
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Theodore Roosevelt
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
The way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
Theodore Roosevelt
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Michel de Montaigne
School is not preparation for life, but school is life.
John Dewey
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent van Gogh
In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon
Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway
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