Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous many a wise guy has been swallowed.
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'' we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
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