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Nietzsche, unlike Jesus Christ, did not mistake his common folk and their ideals; he knew all they wanted was bread and fish, and that they spurned the bread which “cometh from Heaven.”

— Oscar Levy The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

“Oh ! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche’s appreciation of the value of sorrow in education.

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In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.

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Surely it is not every one who is chosen to combat a religion or a morality of two thousand years’ standing, fist within and then without himself.

A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments; learned if he wrote books with one eye on the public and the other on his colleague.

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