A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Isaac Stern

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

Channing Pollock

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

Cameron Diaz

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Carl Jung

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.

Elijah Muhammad

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.

Felix Frankfurter

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

Ludwig Feuerbach

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

Georges Duhamel

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.