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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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What doesn't kill you make you stronger.
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