Friedrich Nietzsche

(161 votes)   Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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(160 votes)   What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(159 votes)   All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(158 votes)   Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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(150 votes)   What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

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(150 votes)   You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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(149 votes)   At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

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(149 votes)   Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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(148 votes)   I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

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(147 votes)   A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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(146 votes)   Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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(139 votes)   A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(128 votes)   The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.

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(122 votes)   How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

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(115 votes)   He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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