"Every man who has declared that some..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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“Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”
“We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.”
“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”
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“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.”
“If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.”
“Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.”
More on Anger
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.”