"Genteel women suppose that those things do..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
“Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.”
“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
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“When taxes are too high, people go hungry.”
“The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.”
“Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.”
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“When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.”
“No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.”
“We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.”