German - Philosopher | October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
BuildingProcessHouseKnowWay
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
SomeoneYouShameMostHumaneSpare
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
LifeCareShortTake CareBecomeUs
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
YourselfWishYouFollowersSeek
Plato was a bore.
BorePlato
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
WisdomEarthSmellInspiredRaven
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
BelieveFindWillSeeAgainstHe
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
HeartControlGoHeadHoldSoon
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
FactsEternalAbsoluteTruths
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
WomanManChildEndAlwaysMeans
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
LoveFatherMotherIllusionNeed
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
LoveGodTodayMyselfMeSin
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