Human, All Too Human

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Refined women's error. Refined women think that a subject does not exist at all if it is not possible to speak about it in society.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Seven: Woman and Child - Aphorism #38310114 years, 10 months ago 

384

A male's disease. The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Seven: Woman and Child - Aphorism #38410714 years, 10 months ago 

385

A kind of jealousy. Mothers are easily jealous of their sons' friends if they are exceptionally successful. Usually a mother loves herself in her son more than she loves the son himself.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Seven: Woman and Child - Aphorism #38510014 years, 10 months ago 

386

Reasonable unreason. When his life and reason are mature, man comes to feel that his father was wrong to beget him.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Seven: Woman and Child - Aphorism #38611114 years, 10 months ago 

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Maternal goodness. Some mothers need happy, respected children; some need unhappy children: otherwise they cannot demonstrate their goodness as mothers.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Seven: Woman and Child - Aphorism #38710714 years, 10 months ago