Quote #47
Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
- The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
- The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, …
- If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it …
- A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
- No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on hi…
- With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcom…
- The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
- In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be …