Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a mental breakdown and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia, living his remaining 11 years under the care of his family until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
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The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.
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What we once did 'for the sake of God' we now do for the sake of money.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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