There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
- Topic: Wisdom
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
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More Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
