
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
6 November 2006 http://www.rooshv.com/womanly-advice
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), p. 151
Context: There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
[God and the Universe: Eddington, Jeans, Huxley, & Einstein, 128, 1931, Pioneer Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=QmBHAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=happier]
Source: "A configurational perspective on key account management", 2002, p. 46
Alex Jones in the 2009 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpscVMiuTVY with Icke (starts at 1:00)
About Icke
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (2004), as quoted at The Buffett http://www.thebuffett.com/quotes.html