“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche , book The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

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