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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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 charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort their delight is self-mastery in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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whatever is profound loves masks what is most profound even hates image and parable.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
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Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
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The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called freedom.
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