"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.”
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“You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”
“Wisdom leads us back to childhood.”
“Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.”
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“Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
“But what would interest you about the brook,It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.”
“Lie on your back and look at the stars.”