Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About History
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
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Every past is worth condemning.
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