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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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And 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.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.
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I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.
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