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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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