A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
from: The Gay Science
Fun |
125 |
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fruitfulness & enjoyment
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
from: The Gay Science
Life |
191 |
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harming a cause
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
from: The Gay Science
Wisdom |
101 |
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
from: The Gay Science
Wisdom |
221 |
11
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
from: The Gay Science
Faith |
115 |
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Society |
134 |
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