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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
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If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
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It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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The masters have been done away with the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
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