What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for...

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for...

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason...

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason...

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have...

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have...

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and...

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe....

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe....

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education;...

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education;...

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even...

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even...

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this....

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this....

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that...

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that...

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman,...

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman,...

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all...

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all...

What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon...

What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon...

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only...

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only...

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be...

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be...

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only...

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only...

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.