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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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The hour when you say, What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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