One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

About Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel....

More quotations from Friedrich Nietzsche

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Use soft words and hard arguments.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

More quotations tagged with “memory”

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

—Chinese proverb

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

—Benjamin Franklin

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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