"A vocation makes us unthinking; that is..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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“Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.”
“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.”
“I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.”
More on Vocation
“Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.”
“Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.”
“The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.”
More on Purpose
“. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”
“Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.”