Friedrich Nietzsche

(58 votes)   People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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(58 votes)   Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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(57 votes)   Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(57 votes)   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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(57 votes)   What a time experiences as evil is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good-the atavism of a more ancient ideal.

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(57 votes)   What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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(56 votes)   The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

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(55 votes)   Christianity makes suffering contagious.

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(55 votes)   One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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(55 votes)   Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

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(54 votes)   I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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(54 votes)   The lie is a condition of life.

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(51 votes)   And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?''

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(51 votes)   The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

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(51 votes)   The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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