The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains… - Friedrich Nietzsche

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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.

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Dem wird befohlen, der sich nicht selber gehorchen kann. So ist es des Lebendigen Art.

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.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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