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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
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Fryderyk Nietzsche
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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: Obey! Clench your teeth and obey! And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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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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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
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