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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for our today.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, Know thyself! Did he perhaps mean,Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!--And Socrates?--And scientific men?
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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