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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Man and Superman (1903)
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Man and Superman (1903)
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Man and Superman (1903)
Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Man and Superman (1903)
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
Man and Superman (1903)
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
Man and Superman (1903)
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters?
Man and Superman (1903)
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
Man and Superman (1903)
Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.
Man and Superman (1903)
The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
Man and Superman (1903)
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Man and Superman (1903)
Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.
Man and Superman (1903)
...what we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, [and] of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real...
Man and Superman (1903)
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Man and Superman (1903)
Nietzsche … he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
Man and Superman (1903)
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Man and Superman (1903)