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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
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The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
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One has to know the size of one's stomach.
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