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" "Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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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لا يكفي لطالب الحقيقة أن يكون مخلصاً في قصده، بل عليه أن يترصد أخلاصه، ويقف موقف المشكك فيها؛ لأن عاشق الحقيقة إنما يحبها لا لنفسه مجاراةً لأهوائه، بل يهيم بها لذاتها ولو كان ذلك مخالفاً لعقيدته، فإذا هو اعترضته فكرة ناقضت مبدأه وجب عليه أن يقف عندها فلا يتردد أن يأخذ بها.
إياك أن تقف حائلاً بين فكرتك وبين ما يُنافيها، فلا يبلغ أولَ درجة من الحكمة مَنْ لا يعمل بهذه الوصية.
عليك أن تُصلى نفسك كل يومٍ حرباً وليس لك أن تُبالى بما تجنيه من نصر أو تجنى علبك جهودك من اندحار، فإن ذلك من شأن الحقيقة لا من شأنك.
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"Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority — where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception; — exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense."