#lea

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#climb #dance #day #first #fly

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#call #consider #danced #day #every

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#began #building #finished #house #know

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. ↗

— Vaslav Nijinsky

#am #clown #eccentrics #i #i am

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#culture #forgetting #great #learning #many

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#crisis #hope #i #japan #knowledge