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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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Respectability offends my taste.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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Life is fountain of joy but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
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It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
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Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without taste, at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
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