"I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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“Humility has the toughest hide.”
“Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.”
“Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”
More on Optimism
“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
“Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.”
“You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.”
More on Laughter
“My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.”
“And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.""Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.”