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Full Idea
There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. For who knows for what purpose your body requires precisely your best wisdom?
Gist of Idea
But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.05)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.62
A Reaction
Lovely question. For years I've paid lip-service to wisdom as the rough aim of all philosophy. Not quite knowing what wisdom is doesn't bother me, but knowing why I want wisdom certainly does, especially after this idea.
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23 ideas
from 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'
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18287
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People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden
[Nietzsche]
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18286
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The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue
[Nietzsche]
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18288
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Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying
[Nietzsche]
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18290
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But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
[Nietzsche]
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18289
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Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body
[Nietzsche]
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18291
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Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy
[Nietzsche]
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18292
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I can only believe in a God who can dance
[Nietzsche]
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18293
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The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old
[Nietzsche]
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18294
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The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie
[Nietzsche]
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18295
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If you want friends, you must be a fighter
[Nietzsche]
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18296
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An enduring people needs its own individual values
[Nietzsche]
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18297
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We created meanings, to maintain ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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18298
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Not being a god is insupportable, so there are no gods!
[Nietzsche]
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18299
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The will is constantly frustrated by the past
[Nietzsche]
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18300
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Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment
[Nietzsche]
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18301
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We only really love children and work
[Nietzsche]
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18302
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Man and woman are deeply strange to one another!
[Nietzsche]
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18303
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Reject wisdom that lacks laughter
[Nietzsche]
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18304
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Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all
[Nietzsche]
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18305
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To love truth, you must know how to lie
[Nietzsche]
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18306
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We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth
[Nietzsche]
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18307
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I want my work, not happiness!
[Nietzsche]
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20757
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The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body
[Nietzsche]
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