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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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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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Life is the will to power our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
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A woman does not want the truth what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
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I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy
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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
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