Quotes by Philologists

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.
Friedrich Nietzsche
As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When thou goest to woman take thy whip.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Great intellects are skeptical.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Giacomo Leopardi
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.
Home Tooke
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi
Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.
Home Tooke
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi
Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
Giacomo Leopardi
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Friedrich Nietzsche
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche