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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those truths we once believed.
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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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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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