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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this belongs perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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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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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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The noble soul reveres itself
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Man makes god in his own image.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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