• Society

  After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

  4.5 · 38 votes · 109 reads

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• Defects

  Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

  4.9 · 56 votes · 190 reads

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• Various

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

  4.5 · 53 votes · 190 reads

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• Various

  All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

  4.9 · 24 votes · 22 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  4.3 · 5 votes · 71 reads

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• Society

  An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

  4.2 · 40 votes · 74 reads

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• Virtues

  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?''

  3.5 · 16 votes · 128 reads

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• Time

  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.

  4.2 · 15 votes · 164 reads

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• Feelings

  Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

  4.9 · 30 votes · 173 reads

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• Society

  Christianity makes suffering contagious.

  3.2 · 27 votes · 44 reads

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• Feelings

  Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

  3.9 · 26 votes · 125 reads

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• Various

  Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

  3.9 · 56 votes · 27 reads

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• Virtues

  Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

  3.6 · 54 votes · 188 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

  4.8 · 37 votes · 118 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

  3.4 · 40 votes · 3 reads

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• Society

  Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

  3.1 · 25 votes · 15 reads

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• Various

  Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

  5.0 · 64 votes · 85 reads

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• Virtues

  Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

  3.7 · 37 votes · 93 reads

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• Various

  Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

  4.8 · 15 votes · 38 reads

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• Feelings

  Fear is the mother of morality.

  4.5 · 8 votes · 148 reads

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• Society

  For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

  3.4 · 43 votes · 108 reads

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• Nature

  For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

  3.0 · 11 votes · 190 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Great intellects are skeptical.

  4.1 · 56 votes · 129 reads

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• Virtues

  He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  3.2 · 22 votes · 133 reads

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• Virtues

  He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

  4.3 · 27 votes · 88 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

  3.3 · 14 votes · 137 reads

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• Various

  He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

  3.8 · 62 votes · 150 reads

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• Nature

  He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

  4.5 · 56 votes · 134 reads

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• Time

  How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  4.2 · 62 votes · 9 reads

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• Society

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

  3.8 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• Nature

  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.

  3.5 · 11 votes · 137 reads

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• Society

  I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

  4.6 · 45 votes · 159 reads

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• Nature

  I love those who do not know how to live for today.

  4.5 · 15 votes · 119 reads

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• Nature

  I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

  5.0 · 47 votes · 137 reads

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• Science and Technology

  Idleness is the parent of psychology.

  4.4 · 38 votes · 54 reads

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• Nature

  If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

  4.0 · 16 votes · 102 reads

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• Nature

  If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

  3.8 · 61 votes · 134 reads

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• Society

  In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

  4.0 · 41 votes · 66 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  4.8 · 31 votes · 165 reads

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• Defects

  In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

  4.6 · 57 votes · 97 reads

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