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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
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If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.
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What is good? ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.
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Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.
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If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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as though the Truth were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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