Today Quotes
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
We are always in our own company.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 166
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 16
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.
It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.
It receives but does not keep.Chuang Tzu
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell, (attributed)
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."Paul Graham, September 2004