This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Diess nämlich ist das Schwerste, aus Liebe die offne Hand schliessen und als Schenkender die Scham bewahren.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Generosity Nature of love

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Paradox

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, 1884, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 2.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius

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Poem
Language
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Time
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Era
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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

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Character Fate
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Heinrich von Ofterdingen

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Novalis
Source
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Language
German
Time
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Novalis. Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Berlin, 1802, pt. 2.

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Novalis. Henry von Ofterdingen. Dover Publications, 2015, pt. 2.

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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George Santayana
Source
Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
English
Time
1910 1910s 20th century
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Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910, introduction.