Quotes - Nehal Shah (fathelga) (Berlin, Germany) Showing 1-30 of 36

#1

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#2

“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
― Mary Pickford

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#3

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

798 likes

#4

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#5

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

tags: death, life, philosophy, wisdom

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#6

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh

tags: civilization

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#7

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russel

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#8

“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.”
― Bill Hirst

tags: francis-bacon, monkeys, shakespeare, typewriters

11 likes

#9

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom

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#10

“If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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#11

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#12

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
― Charlie Chaplin

582 likes

#13

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#14

“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#15

“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.”
― Clarence Darrow

tags: agnosticism, compliment, ignorance, knowledge, pretense, scopes-trial

188 likes

#16

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”
― Voltaire

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#17

“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#18

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: humor, life

2193 likes

#19

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

2644 likes

#20

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”
― John Stuart Mill

tags: human-nature

20 likes

#21

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy

3447 likes

#22

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: science, truth

784 likes

#24

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

1811 likes

#25

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#26

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

7927 likes

#27

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X

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#28

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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