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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .
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In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.
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Principle of Christian love: it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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No victor believes in chance.
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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.
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