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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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Speaking is a beautiful folly with that man dances over all things.
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We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis they are the only reliable weapons of power the priest lives upon sins it is necessary to him that there be sinning.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.
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The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred No even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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