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Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

— Georg Brandes An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

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The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

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The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

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