A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Foolish Happiness Patience Speak Still Things Too Will Young

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Friedrich Nietzsche
German - Philosopher
October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

W. Somerset Maugham

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

Charlie Munger

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

John Ruskin

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Thomas Carlyle

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Darren Shan

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

Criss Jami

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Heinrich Heine

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.