"A person must have a good memory..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
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“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?”
“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
“What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!”
More on Memory
“But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.”
“THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me”
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
More on Imagination
“Anything you can imagine, you can create.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.”