“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?… that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book iii. Chap 2. Of Repentance
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
A message to Eckermann on March 11, (1832), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies http://archive.is/tOo5z (1961), Beacon Press, p. 56
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 117
“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Invincible
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English children's writer and illustrator
Jussi Halla-aho (1971) Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician
Jussi Halla-aho (2005), published in the blog Scripta Ihmisarvosta http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/ihmisarvosta.html, April 13, 2005 <br class="br">2005-09
