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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to
mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even
if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot
of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing
generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment,
that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly
stuck to its work through the course of a long life.

preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“as the "people of the centre" in every
sense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:--they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”
― bacon

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche