The Philosophy of Friedrich NietzscheLuce, 1908 - 325 pages |
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... yearn- ing for disputation soon led him to the discovery that there were other boys worth cultivating : other boys whose ... yearning for the com- panionship of his fellows , and a voice beginning to grow comically harsh and deep , and a ...
... yearn- ing for disputation soon led him to the discovery that there were other boys worth cultivating : other boys whose ... yearning for the com- panionship of his fellows , and a voice beginning to grow comically harsh and deep , and a ...
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... pale beer . In the youth of every man there comes over him a sudden yearning to be a good fellow : to be " Bill " or " Jim " to multitudes , and to go down into legend with Sir John Falstaff and Tom BOYHOOD AND YOUTH 13.
... pale beer . In the youth of every man there comes over him a sudden yearning to be a good fellow : to be " Bill " or " Jim " to multitudes , and to go down into legend with Sir John Falstaff and Tom BOYHOOD AND YOUTH 13.
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... yearning to call all of these false prophets to book and to reduce their fine axioms to absurdity . Accordingly , he planned a series of twenty- four pamphlets and decided to call them " Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen , " which may be ...
... yearning to call all of these false prophets to book and to reduce their fine axioms to absurdity . Accordingly , he planned a series of twenty- four pamphlets and decided to call them " Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen , " which may be ...
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... yearning for ease . He had turned the searchlight of truth upon patriotism , charity and self - sacrifice . He had shown that many things held to be utterly and un- questionably good or bad by modern civilization were once given quite ...
... yearning for ease . He had turned the searchlight of truth upon patriotism , charity and self - sacrifice . He had shown that many things held to be utterly and un- questionably good or bad by modern civilization were once given quite ...
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... yearning to eat and take our ease and beget our kind , are founded upon our desire to appear superior , in some way or other , to our fellow men about us , and this desire for superiority , reduced to its lowest terms , is merely a ...
... yearning to eat and take our ease and beget our kind , are founded upon our desire to appear superior , in some way or other , to our fellow men about us , and this desire for superiority , reduced to its lowest terms , is merely a ...
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Page 269 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 78 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 122 - American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell, are the very essence of the free man's way of life.
Page 128 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 269 - China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound in the end to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities.
Page 81 - evil" is of a different origin. The cowardly, the timid, the insignificant, and those thinking merely of narrow utility are despised; moreover, also, the distrustful, with their constrained glances, the self-abasing, the dog-like kind of men who let themselves be abused, the mendicant flatterers, and above all the liars:— it is a fundamental belief of all aristocrats that the common people are untruthful. "We truthful ones"— the nobility in ancient Greece called themselves.
Page 202 - He who can command, he who is a master by "nature," he who comes on the scene forceful in deed and gesture— what has he to do with contracts? Such beings defy calculation, they come like fate, without cause, reason, notice, excuse, they are there as the lightning is there, too terrible, too sudden, too convincing, too "different,
Page 167 - Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: it is the good war which halloweth every cause. War and courage have done more great things than charity.
Page 234 - The man who has become free - and how much more the mind that has become free - spurns the contemptible sort of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, women, Englishmen and other democrats. The free man is a warrior.