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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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 despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
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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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We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
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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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Call me whatever you like I am who I must be.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
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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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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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