The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use...

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use...

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For...

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For...

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least...

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Discontent is the seed of ethics

Discontent is the seed of ethics

Love is not consolation. It is light

Love is not consolation. It is light

Woman was God's second mistake.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

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...

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...

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one...

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one...

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform...

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform...

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally...

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally...