To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Stupidity Quotes

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men....

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men....

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased...

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased...

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...

Success has always been a great liar.

Success has always been a great liar.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at...

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

The people who marry make a good marriage not marriage in itself.

The people who marry make a good marriage not marriage in itself.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred...

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred...

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at...

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at...

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Writers will happen in the best of families

Writers will happen in the best of families

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer...

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer...