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- But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
- To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 158
- We are always in our own company.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 166
- I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 381
- What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Antichrist, section 2
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Antichrist, section 16
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), (attributed)
- 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part III, Act I, sc. 4
- Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
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