"Men use a new lesson or experience..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.”
“The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.”
“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”
More on Gender
“Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.”
“Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.”
“There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.”
More on Learning
“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.”