APHORISMS BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
In individuals insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule.
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
All truths that are kept become poisonous.
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
Success has always been a great liar.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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