Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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More Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
