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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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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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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful' the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
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The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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