Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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