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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#3

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

tags: suicide

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#4

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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#5

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humour, men, slavery, slaves

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#6

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#7

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

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#8

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: dogmatism, ethics, nietzsche

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#9

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: evil, good, humanity, light, man, self-righteousness, zarathustra

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#10

“Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#11

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#12

“Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, humor, law, rule, rules

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#13

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: conformity, fashion, generation

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#14

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

tags: friendship

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#15

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

tags: honor, honour

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#16

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
― Socrates

tags: equality, superiority, women

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#17

“Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: abstinence, sobriety, socrates

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#18

“Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”
― Socrates

tags: behavioural-psychology, philosophy-of-life

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#19

“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.”
― Socrates, Apology

tags: justice, philosophy, politics

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#20

“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy, socrates, wisdom

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#21

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
― Socrates

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#22

“It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.”
― Socrates

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#23

“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
― Plato, Crito

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#24

“Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conformity

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