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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
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Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?
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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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When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.
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You say a good cause justifies any war but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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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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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring these belong chiefly to political parties.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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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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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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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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