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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Knowledge kills action; action requires the...


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

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion


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(French, German)



French
La connaissance tue l'action: pour agir, il faut que les yeux se voilent d'un bandeau d'illusion.

German
Die Erkenntnis tötet das Handeln, zum Handeln gehört das Umschleiertsein durch die Illusion.




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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.

They succeed, because they think they can.

Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious.

The finest things in life are life’s illusions.




Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.











Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;











Quotes for: illusion


Quotes

Quotes for: illusion


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Illusions fall away, like the peels of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience.





The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.





I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.





The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.







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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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