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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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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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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.
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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
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It is our needs that interpret the world our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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Speaking is a beautiful folly with that man dances over all things.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent
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