A philosophical battle between Dostoevsky and Nietzsche :

 

A philosophical battle between Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

On humanity:

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Dostoevsky: "Man is a creature who walks on two legs, yet is ungrateful." "

Nietzsche: "Man is nothing but an entity beyond which to transcend." "

On life:

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Dostoevsky: "Everyone in this world should love life, not try to understand it. "

Nietzsche: "Life is nothing but a smile on the lips of a dead man." "

On happiness:

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Dostoevsky: "I'm looking for happiness, but: where is he?"

Nietzsche: "We have invented happiness as an invention. "

On contentment:

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Dostoevsky: "At first they cried, then they adapted and got used to it. Man can adapt to anything...

How despised. "

Nietzsche: "In fact, I hate people who see everything as good and this world as the best world." 

It is only content who accept everything and enjoy it without any taste.

On reason:

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Dostoevsky: "Reason guides me, and it has destroyed me. "

Nietzsche: "The deepest beliefs in the mind are the things that seem incredible." 

On Heart:

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Dostoyevsky: "He became a victim of his great belief in the nobility of the human heart."

Nietzsche: "I love only what man has written with his own blood… Longing is deeper than heartbreak.

At home:

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Dostoevsky: "Gone are the days when our parents were worried about us abroad.

Nietzsche: "Every country has its own hypocrisy, which it calls its own virtues." 

As far as his best qualities are concerned, he is unaware of them and refuses to know them. "

On children:

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Dostoevsky: "Living with children heals the soul." "

Nietzsche: "No nation can progress when the roots of its children are damaged." 

On love:

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Dostoevsky: "He loved her very much but hated this lewd excess in expressing emotions.

He despised emotions that resembled those of cattle. "

Nietzsche: "There is not so much love and goodness in this world that we leave imaginary beings.

On intelligence:

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Dostoevsky: "Intelligence is a problem, and being too conscious is a real curse." "

Nietzsche: "When we think too much and too intelligently, it doesn't just change the face,

but the whole body takes over the intelligence." 

On date:

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Dostoevsky: "I can't appreciate the history of the world, it's just a study of human stupidity. "

Nietzsche: "Some historians and biographers sell us legitimate lies and fabricated stories that make us happy to believe."

On freedom of expression:

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Dostoevsky: "Suppose I am wrong; nevertheless, I still have freedom of belief, and this is a sacred universal right. "

Nietzsche: "It is difficult to remember my opinions without remembering the reasons why I expressed them. "

On willpower:

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Dostoevsky: "Either I'm a hero, or I'm nothing. There is no middle ground in my eyes, and that's exactly 

what destroyed me. "

Nietzsche: "Walk on the path of life only with the whip of your determination and intention,

whip at every obstacle in your path.

On pain:

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Dostoevsky: "Pain! It is the only cause of feeling and the only cause of consciousness. "

Nietzsche: "The intensity of pain at every stage of my life was unbearable.

( Zeeshan Afzal )