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Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart

“The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.”

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B.H. Liddell Hart was a British military theorist known for his profound understanding of strategy and tactics, whose works have had a profound impact on modern military thought. more

“Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.”

Knows Art Powerful Know How Invention Honour Domain

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.”

Knows Men Hard Speak Pleasure Powerful Silence Know How Noble Honour Reverence Severe Severity Hardness Noble Man

Book:The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

“The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.”

Knows Men Term Consequence Every Man Defence

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.”

Knows Mean Doe Behinds Enemy Standing Chairs Coward

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.”

Hard Conviction Creator Command Distinctive

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.”

Men World Poor Rich Finance Idle Rich Man Industrious

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

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