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Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher and writer

Nationality: German

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Type: Writer

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Birth: 1844-1900

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

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Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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Fear is the mother of morality.

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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?''

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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

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The lie is a condition of life.

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

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Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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Only sick music makes money today.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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Plato was a bore.

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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.

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Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything -health, food, a place to live, entertainment -they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

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The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

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The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

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Great intellects are skeptical.

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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

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'To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses deligh

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Success has always been a great liar.

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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

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