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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.
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Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
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