"Fear is the mother of morality...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear is the mother of morality.
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“Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.”
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“More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”