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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise, Wisdom, Nature

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Patience, Wisdom, Growth
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Flames, Sage

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Lonely, Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Needs, Body

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Brother, Self

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiring, Wisdom, Philosophy
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883 - 1891.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Knowledge, Limits

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise, Running, Wisdom

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Knowledge, Bounds
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.3, Courier Corporation

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Clouds, Long
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.248, Lulu Press, Inc

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Men, People
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Science, Feelings

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Plato, Philosophical
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.294, Vintage

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Ravens, Smell

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise, Wisdom, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.125, Penguin

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