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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.
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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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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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This world is the will to power and nothing besides!
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
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Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
Friedrich Nietzsche
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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