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Friedrich Nietzsche29 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1889"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883All 29 quotes →Karl Von Clausewitz1 quote
War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. — Karl Von Clausewitz · 1833Moses Mendelssohn1 quote
To put it in one word: I believe that Judaism knows nothing of revealed religion, in the sense in which this is understood by Christians. The Israelites possess divine legislation. — Moses Mendelssohn · 1783Novalis1 quote
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception. — Novalis · 1802Otto von Bismarck1 quote
Politics is the art of the possible. — Otto von Bismarck · 1867