When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Learning Quotes, Mankind Quotes

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being...

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being...

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he...

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he...

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of...

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of...

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward...

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward...

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another...

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another...

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends,...

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends,...

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to...

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to...

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

Dear guy on the dance floor 'Raising the roof,' you're not raising your chances of...

Dear guy on the dance floor 'Raising the roof,' you're not raising your chances of...

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You...

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You...