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“I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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“Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on "institutions”
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“All things are Nothing to Me”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to "its bloom"! The individuals have died "for the great cause of the nation," and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and - has the profit of it. I call that a paying kind of egoism.”
― The Ego and Its Own and The False Principle of Our Education
― The Ego and Its Own and The False Principle of Our Education
Fortuna’s 2024 Year in Books
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