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Classical Philologist Inspirational Quotes (1555)

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God, the immortality of the soul, salvation, the beyond-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Gilbert Murray
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred No even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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