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Being and Nothingness · 1943
★ 8.1
We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.
The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right · 1883
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!
The Consolation of Philosophy · 523
Pensees · 1662
Pensees · 1670
★ 6.9
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Beyond Good and Evil · 1886