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This book includes selections from Nietzsche's writings, offering insights into his philosophy and critical analysis of modern society
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“Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.”
“In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.”
“Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.”
“Pity makes suffering contagious.”
“I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.”
“One should never know too precisely whom one has married”
“Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.”
“Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.”
“One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.”
“Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.”
“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.”
“I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.”
“In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs”
“One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.”
“Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.”
“There is always some madness in love.”
“Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.”
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
“Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.”
“Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”
“The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.”
“Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.”
“If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.”
“Humility has the toughest hide.”
“In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.”
“Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.”
“Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.”
“He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.”