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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
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Life is fountain of joy but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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What doesn't kill you make you stronger.
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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