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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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I overcame myself, the sufferer I carried my own ashes to the mountains I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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