"This woman is beautiful and clever: but..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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“O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!”
“Every past is worth condemning.”
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”
More on Beauty
“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
“There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't”
“There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.”
More on Intelligence
“I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.”