"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

Heidegger, Martin on death
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on equality
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"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on excellence
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on marriage
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on atheism
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"So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on praise
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"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on punishment
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"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on reason
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on religion
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"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on self-control
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"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suffering
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"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on books - reading   

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on brevity
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on certainty
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"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on writers and writing
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on conformity
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"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on obscenity
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