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One must learn to love, one must learn to be kind, and this from childhood onwards.
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“One must learn to love, one must learn to be kind, and this from childhood onwards.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All-Too-Human
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1909
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Helen Zimmern — Translator · from German
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Meaning of “One must learn to love, one must learn…”

The aphorism treats loving and kind dispositions as capacities that can be practiced and cultivated rather than assumed to arise automatically.

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Human, All-Too-Human, Part I, aphorism 601, “Learning to Love”; Helen Zimmern translation; this record uses the opening sentence.

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