Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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About Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel....

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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death selected voluntarily, death at the right time, consummated with brightness and cheerfulness in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible where he is yet present who takes his leave.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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