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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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Friedrich Nietzsche
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
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Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
Only sick music makes money today.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 16
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
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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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, Sec. 297
God is dead.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 130
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 158
We are always in our own company.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 166
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381
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