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Human All Too Human - A Book for Free Spirits

By Friedrich Nietzsche

Written in an aphoristic style of short paragraphs and sayings, this book is well suited to our approach of attaching quotes to themes. The first edition had 638 aphorisms, the second added 408, and the third 350 more all divided into subject sections. Nietzsche thought these could help deepen a philosophical understanding that would help people “in overcoming life's hard moments." At first only 120 of the originally printed 1,000 copies sold and—8 years later—less than 500. It only became popular long after Nietzsche’s death.

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Themes: Crazy Wisdom

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“And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence… be your own source of experience., throw off your discontent, forgive yourself, merge everything you have lived through.”

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“Every progress of the whole must be preceded by a partial weakening.”

Chapters: 42. Children of the Way

Themes: Progress

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“He is called a free spirit who thinks differently from what, on the basis of his origin, environment, his class and profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the age, would have been expected of him.”

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Themes: Crazy Wisdom

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“I myself do not believe that anybody ever looked into the world with a distrust as deep as mine... a constant, subtle, incitement to an overturning of habitual opinions and of approved customs.”

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“Marriage as a long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself if you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory.”

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Themes: Marriage

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“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

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Themes: Aggression

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“Not infrequently, noble-minded and ambitious men have to endure their harshest struggle in childhood, perhaps by having to assert their characters against a low-minded father, who is devoted to pretense and mendacity, or by living, like Lord Byron, in continual struggle with a childish and wrathful mother. If one has experienced such struggles, for the rest of his life he will never get over knowing who has been in reality his greatest and most dangerous enemy.”

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“One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.”

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Themes: Opinion

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“One's belief in truth begins with a doubt of all the truths one has believed before.”

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Themes: Curiosity Doubt

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“Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like scoundrels.”

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Themes: Crime

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“The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her own spirit to that of a man out of love of him and of his spirit but then, despite this sacrifice, immediately evolving a new spirit within the new domain, originally alien to her nature, to which the man's disposition impels her.”

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“The strongest natures retain the type, the weaker ones help to advance it.”

Chapters: 3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones

Themes: Freedom

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“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

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Themes: Religion

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“There is rarely a degeneration, a truncation, or even a vice or any physical or moral loss without an advantage somewhere else.”

Chapters: 76. The Soft and Flexible

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“Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.”

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“Wherever progress is to evolve, deviating natures are of greatest importance.”

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Themes: Progress

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