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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Classical Philologist
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
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Fryderyk Nietzsche
Fridrikh Nitche
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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from justifying ourselves.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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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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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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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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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
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as though the Truth were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred No even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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