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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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My genius is in my nostrils.
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred No even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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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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Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
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