In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality

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....

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion...

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

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

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

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike...

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike...

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron...

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron...

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains...

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains...

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the...

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the...

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable...

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable...

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original...

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original...