Quotes by Philologists - Page 2

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The end of pain we take as happiness.
Giacomo Leopardi
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
Giacomo Leopardi
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.
Justus Lipsius
Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
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
Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril; but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there. Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.
J.R.R. Tolkien
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Let twelve angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld." And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was Nebro, which means in translation 'rebel'; others call him Yaldabaoth.
Rodolphe Kasser
Of the spirit of women. - The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her own spirit to that of a man out of love of him and of his spirit but then, despite this sacrifice, immediately evolving _a new spirit_ within the new domain, originally alien to her nature, to which the man's disposition impels her. (from Assorted Opinions & Maxims 272)-- This is the first time among years of reading Nietzsche that i agree with his words on women: this aphorism captures a few quintessences of true and gallant womanhood, namely the will(ingness) to sacrifice (not only to others but also to the necessity that arises in a context), the balance between creative and reactive, the free-spiritedness out of such balance without conceit and swagger, and the malleability/fluidity without blind submission. (It is momentous to note that the man-woman dynamic is not binary, and that man/womanhood is not a given in one's biology - it's more something that evolves in a person over time.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes right on handling his scales, calling this good and that evil. Nobody even blushes when you intimate that their weights are underweight; nor do people feel outraged; they merely laugh at your doubts. I mean: the great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly, without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and the noblest women still belong to this "great majority." But what is goodheartedness, refinement, or genius to me, when the person who has these virtues tolerates slack feelings in his faith and judgments and when he does not account the desire for certainty as his inmost craving and deepest distress—as that which separates the higher human beings from the lower.Among some pious people I found a hatred of reason and was well disposed to them for that; for this at least betrayed their bad intellectual conscience. But to stand in the midst of this rerum concordia discors and of this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity of existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning, without at least hating the person who questions, perhaps even finding him faintly amusing—that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human being has this feeling, simply because he is human. This is my type of injustice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance
Friedrich Nietzsche
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) – not only are they better, but they have a “better time”, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can’t bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated – it seems to me just to stink of lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.
J.R.R. Tolkien
In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum.
Friedrich Nietzsche
those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
J.R.R. Tolkien
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
J.R.R. Tolkien
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
J.R.R. Tolkien
I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!
Friedrich Nietzsche
I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind.
J.R.R. Tolkien