Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher...

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...

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and...

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and...

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

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.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the...

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the...

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

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...

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to...

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to...

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes...

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes...

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct...

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct...

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.

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.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the...

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the...