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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
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When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!
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Men are cowards when it comes to the eternally feminine: and the little women know it.
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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
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