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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Classical Philologist
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?
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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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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.
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Higher than thou shalt stands I will (the heroes), and higher than I will stands I am (the Greek gods).
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
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