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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful' the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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