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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The concepts soul, spirit and last of all the concept immortal soul were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - holy - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
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Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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After all, what would be beautiful if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: I am ugly?.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases one of its diseases is called man.
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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
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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.
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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The saying, The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored, is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle 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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Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.
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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
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There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.
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The good-they cannot create they are always the beginning of the end.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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