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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
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