The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Truth Wisdom

Author

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Language

German

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

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Writer

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Switzerland Europe

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Lavater, Johann Kaspar. Aphorisms of Man, translated by Henry Fuseli. London: J. Johnson, 1788, no. 93.

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 12:12).

Another quote originally in German

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beyond Good and Evil
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German
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1886 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 227.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 227.