Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Children Quotes, Maturity Quotes

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

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