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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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Ego, sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity it saith not ego, but doeth it.
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself lying to others is relatively the exception.
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
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All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
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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.
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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
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