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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring these belong chiefly to political parties.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Every word is a prejudice.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart it is everywhere, it is nowhere.
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this belongs perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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Respectability offends my taste.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.
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