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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Perhaps I know best why it...


Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Vielleicht weiß ich am besten, warum der Mensch allein lacht: Er allein leidet so tief, dass er das Lachen erfinden musste.

French
Peut-être sais-je pourquoi l'homme seul rit. Lui seul souffre si profondément qu'il a dû inventer le rire.




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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.




Quotes for: laughter


Quotes

Quotes for: laughter


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.





The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.











Quotes

Quotes for: pain


Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.





I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.





Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.





I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.





No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.











Quotes

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...




Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;





Become who you are!





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.












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