Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it -...

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it -...

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy...

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy...

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you:...

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you:...

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the...

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the...

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't...

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't...

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or...

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of...

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an...

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an...

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in...

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in...

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a...

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a...

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I hate that feeling when you go to bed knowing the next day you're going...

I hate that feeling when you go to bed knowing the next day you're going...