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Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way...
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who...
Many a man...
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
One must still...
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
It is my...
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
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One often contradicts...
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was...
Love is a...
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
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Faith: not *wanting*...
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct...
If we have...
If we have our own why of life, we can bear almost any how.
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How good bad...
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
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Man is the...
Man is the cruelest animal.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900),...
On the mountains...
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be...
I conjure you,...
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of...
Actual philosophers. ....
Actual philosophers. . . are commanders and law-givers: they say thus it shall be!, it is they who determine the...
Nobody dies nowadays...
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
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Men are even...
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional...
Talking much about...
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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It is hard...
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
The desire to...
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...
One has to...
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still...
People who have...
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a...