The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
1913-1960. French writer and philosopher, received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, author of "The Plague", "The Fall", "Reflections on the Guillotine" and "Notebooks".
1. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
source: "Notebooks"
Categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Manners and Ethics -:- Question and Problem
2. "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Categories: Science and Technology
3. "What is a rebel? A man who says no."
source: "The Rebel"
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Justice
4. "We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven."
source: "The Fall"
5. "Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."
Categories: Politics and Diplomacy
6. "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
Categories: Human
7. "I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day."
source: "The Fall"
Categories: Justice
8. "Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."
Categories: Freedom and Servitude
9. "Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic."
source: "The Rebel"
Categories: Authority, Government
10. "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Categories: Friendship and Hostility
11. "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
source: "Notebooks"
Categories: Intellect, Judgement
12. "All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State."
source: "The Rebel"
Categories: Authority, Government
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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