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“To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...A man like this shakes from him, with one shrug, many worms which would have burrowed into another man...”
― On the Genealogy of Morals
― On the Genealogy of Morals
“There is so much in man that is horrifying!..
The world has been a madhouse for too long!...”
― On the Genealogy of Morals
The world has been a madhouse for too long!...”
― On the Genealogy of Morals
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.”
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“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but a disease.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason. The man who will improve the place is the man who loves it without a reason...I do not deny that reform may be excessive; I only say that it is the mystic patriot who reforms. Mere jingo self-contentment is commonest among those who have some pedantic reason for their patriotism. The worst jingoes do not love England, but a theory of England. If we love England for being an empire, we may overrate the success with which we rule the Hindoos. But if we love it only for being a nation, we can face all events: for it would be a nation even if the Hindoos ruled us. Thus also only those will permit their patriotism to falsify history whose patriotism depends on history. A man who loves England for being English will not mind how she arose...”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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