Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Mean Quotes, Degrees Quotes

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

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