Thursday, September 22, 2005

Nietzsche and Other Quotes

What makes heroic? To confont simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.
What do you believe in? I believe that the weight of all things must be determined anew.
What does your conscience tell you? You must become who you are.
What is your greatest danger? In pity.
What do you love in others? My hopes.
Whom do you call bad? He who always desires to make one ashamed.
What is for you the most humane thing? To spare someone shame.
What is the seal of freedom attained? No longer to be ashamed of oneself.

God is dead.

Live dangerously.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. Courageous, unperturbed, mocking, violent- this is what wisdom wants to be: wisdom is a woman and loves only a warrior.

-Friedrich Nietzsche


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein


I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots. -Mark Twain


I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

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