Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

Der Mensch ist ein Seil, geknüpft zwischen Thier und Übermensch,-ein Seil über einem Abgrunde.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic

Nature of man The human condition

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

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Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Praise of war War

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Medium
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Language
German
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Von Moltke, Helmuth. Letter to Johann Caspar Bluntschli. 11 Dec. 1880.

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One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour.

Oscar Wilde

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Topic
Life The human condition
Speaker
Ivan the Czar

Author

Oscar Wilde
Source
Vera, or The Nihilists
Medium
Play
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Vera; or, The Nihilists. London: Ranken & Co., 1880, act 4.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Vera; or, The Nihilists." The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Vera; or The Nihilist and Lady Windermere's Fan, edited by Josephine M. Guy. Vol. 11, Oxford University Press, 2021, act 4.

Another quote originally in German

Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

The Maid of Orleans

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Topic
Stupidity
Speaker
Talbot

Author

Friedrich Schiller
Source
The Maid of Orleans
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play) Tragedy
Language
German
Time
1801 1800s 19th century
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Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Die Jungfrau von Orleans [The Maid of Orleans]. 11 Sept 1801, Leipzig, Germany, act 3, sc. 6.