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“Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"
(We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)
[Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]”
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(We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)
[Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]”
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“What is good? - All that heightens the feelings of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? - All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? - The feeling that power increases - that a resistance is overcome.”
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“Accordingly we must accept this cruel sounding truth that slavery is of the essence of Culture; a truth of course, which leaves no doubt as to the absolute value of Existence. This truth is the vulture that gnaws at the liver of the Promethean promoter of Culture. The misery of toiling men must still increase in order to make the production of the world of art possible to a small number of Olympian men.”
― The Greek State and Other Fragments
― The Greek State and Other Fragments
“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”
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“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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