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Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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What is good? ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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whatever is profound loves masks what is most profound even hates image and parable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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