WednesdayFeb 04, 2026
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of welfare.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The changes in our life must come more from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling killing.
We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
A modern branch of mathematics, having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small, can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion, which used to appear insoluble. This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the ancients, whe
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonalthat there is no human relationship between master and slave.
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
The strongest of all warriors are these two Time and Patience.
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible ... and to serve others as much as possible.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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