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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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I see many soldiers could I but see many warriors! Uniform one calleth what they wear may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.
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Body am I, and soul - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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No victor believes in chance.
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Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.
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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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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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