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For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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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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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called freedom.
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I have somehow something like influence ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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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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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a world?
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The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.
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A woman does not want the truth what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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