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14 hours ago, smashradio said:
16 hours ago, wordsfire said:

"the man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." 

I'll counter this one with a quote from Anton LaVey, who interestingly enough, was inspired by Nietzsche. 

Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

I didn't know we were supposed to counter quotes with quotes but aight...

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

― Oscar Wilde 

"in time we hate that which we often fear."

― William Shakespeare 

and

"of all the liars of the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears."

― Rudyard Kipling 

 

14 hours ago, smashradio said:

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
 Friedrich Nietzsche

quite a misquote unfortunately.

it is from none of his works. and there are no sources available.

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/47732/did-nietzsche-actually-say-or-write-sometimes-people-dont-want-to-hear-the-tr 

the closest similarity that I can remember would be from the early chapters of Thus Spake Zarathustra. but that was about contempt, not truth.

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10 hours ago, wordsfire said:

I didn't know we were supposed to counter quotes with quotes but aight...

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

― Oscar Wilde 

"in time we hate that which we often fear."

― William Shakespeare 

and

"of all the liars of the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears."

― Rudyard Kipling 

Gotta have some fun with them, beyond just reading them. 

When it comes to the Nietzsche quote, you're absolutely right. It's a good quote, but as far as I can see, it's not from him. 

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8 minutes ago, mikavirtanen said:

1. If anything can go wrong, it will.
2. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first one to go wrong.
3. If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
6. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

You must be in a positive mood 😄 . Or maybe a realist who's seen a lot. Lol

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