#wisdom

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,

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Come, listen to my words, for learning increases wisdom.

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to

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An increase in Wisdom is not the result of knowing more and more but a gradual realisation of the unknowable.

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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

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It seems to me at times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost

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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number,

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I love those who do not know how to live except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection,...

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I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet

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The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but

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You should learn to love people and use things. And not the other way around.

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Those who are lovers of wisdom should be inquirers into many things.

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Be with someone who always wants to know how your day was.

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There is no ‘a priori’ reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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