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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
ARISTOTLE He who refuses to obey cannot command.
KENYAN PROVERB He that cannot obey, cannot command.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle o...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER He who refuses to obey cannot command. - Kikuyu, Kenya
AFRICAN PROVERB A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot co...
JAMES ALLEN In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
ALBERT CAMUS person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect...
ROBERT GREENE Love cannot be commanded
LATIN PROVERB He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
FRANCIS BACON If you could imagine dissonance assuming human form - and what else is man? - this dissonance would ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY Nature is commanded by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
JESUS CHRIST Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you be...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
JOHN PAUL JONES He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical law...
MARTIN GARDNER He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of...
JOHN LOCKE He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of ...
JOHN LOCKE A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He...
THOMAS LEWIS Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
ERIC CANTONA [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...
PETER SLOTERDIJK Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.
THOMAS LEWIS Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living...
UNKNOWN Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living crea...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our tasks must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b...
GURDJIEFF Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but...
HENRY CLAY If you are not filled with overflowing love, compassion and goodwill for all creatures living wild i...
PAUL OXTON I, who am I among living creatures?
ENHEDUANNA The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
HENRY ADAMS He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT He who wears a mask cannot see within himself.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Mladic is within the reach of the government in Belgrade and we cannot wait anymore for him to surre...
FLORENCE HARTMAN The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-creatures. A ...
S. M. M'CORKLE The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't,...
DREW BARRYMORE I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel...
DREW BARRYMORE He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.
UNKNOWN No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself...
PYTHAGORAS He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world symphony and to re-project them...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cann...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cann...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...
ANDREW SOLOMON He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will lear...
CHINESE PROVERB …he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
BUDDHA He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, s...
MOSHE SAFDIE As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he ...
GERALD STANLEY LEE Obey the gods and your prayers will not be heard. Obey the king and your prayers will not be heard. ...
JOACHIM MUNTHE A person who is truly loving the Mother Nature has a caring behavior towards all living creatures, s...
ANUJ SOMANY Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the ...
MARK TWAIN By nature, human beings are habit-forming creatures. We cannot live without being controlled by our ...
TERENCE T. GORSKI One who does not obey the parents’ word will be taught by the world.
VIKRANT PARSAI No one can reach Him. He Himself creates, and He Himself nurtures, all beings and creatures are fash...
GURU NANAK He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with hi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his nati...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
SUN TZU he who knows when he can fight and when he cannot , will be victorious .
SUN TZU The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
THOMAS A KEMPIS The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly
THOMAS KEMPIS Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591 He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge ...
GEORGE HERBERT He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. H...
LAO-TSE He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will b...
CHANAKYA He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself
PROVERB Frank Schirrmacher's passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich ...
HUBERT BURDA He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
RED AUERBACH He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
-AUERBACH He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted
BERTHOLD AUERBACH I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
ALBERT CAMUS He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad
AFRICAN PROVERB A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked ...
RANDOLPH BOURNE A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still
SUNDAY ADELAJA The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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