German - Philosopher | October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
MenTogetherMindStandHisThem
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
BlessedBetterGetEvenBlunders
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
LifeValueBe TrueTrueNeverLast
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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
MankindLastErrorsResortThen
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
ManCreativeMovementOriginalCause
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
FriendYouWantEverythingSeeMust
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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