Friedrich Nietzsche

(224 votes)   The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(220 votes)   Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(211 votes)   You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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(207 votes)   If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(201 votes)   In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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(186 votes)   Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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(185 votes)   Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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(176 votes)   If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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(173 votes)   When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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(170 votes)   In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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(170 votes)   Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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(164 votes)   The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(163 votes)   The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

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(162 votes)   Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

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(162 votes)   The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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