wisdom Quotes

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.