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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, Know thyself! Did he perhaps mean,Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!--And Socrates?--And scientific men?
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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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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[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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God, the immortality of the soul, salvation, the beyond-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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You shall become the person you are.
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
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