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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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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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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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Call me whatever you like I am who I must be.
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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