Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&q="we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed"&pg=PA137#v=onepage
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view.”
The Discovery of India (1946), pp. 287-8.
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell
(1903–1950) English author and journalist
This has been attributed to Orwell on the internet, but the earliest source citing him as author appears to be a post from Jsnip4 on the RealistNews.net forum (15 February 2011) http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-realist-news-was-the-capital-gains-tax-just-removed-regarding-bullion. Prior to this, the statement occurred, without attribution to Orwell, in an opinion piece by columnist Selwyn Duke http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/duke/090506, "Stopping Truth At The Border: Banning Michael Savage From Britain" (6 May 2009) https://web.archive.org/web/20150701002957/http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/stopping-truth-at-the-border-banning-michael-savage-from-britain.
Misattributed
“We are the change we have been waiting for.”
Barack Obama
(1961) 44th President of the United States of America
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
Fernando Pessoa
(1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
“Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”
Max Planck
(1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
As quoted in Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology, Vol. 25 (1980), p. 3
“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.”
Max Planck
(1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Variant: Science advances one funeral at a time.
“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
Max Planck
(1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Max Müller, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
Misattributed
“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”
Plato
(-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
196
The Symposium