Wilhelm Reich - Quotes

 It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you have done with Christianity, with the doctrine of sovereign people, with socialism, with everything you touch. Why, you ask, do you do this? I don't believe you really want an answer. When you hear the truth you'll cry bloody murder, or commit it.  

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 a nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 My genius is in my nostrils. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 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. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 One must learn to love. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.  

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Michel Foucault - Quotes

 Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that are put to you, and say that the objections are not really directed at the place from which you are speaking? Are you going to declare yet again that you have never been what you have been reproached with being? Are you already preparing the way out that will enable you in your next book to spring up somewhere else and declare as you're now doing: no, no, I'm not where you are lying in wait for me, but over here, laughing at you?'

'What, do you imagine that I would take so much trouble and so much pleasure in writing, do you think that I would keep so persistently to my task, if I were not preparing  

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Walter Kaufmann - Quotes

 No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him makes us weary. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.  

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 I obviously do everything to be  

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P.G. Wodehouse - Quotes

 You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.--- 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 You desire to LIVE  

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. 

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