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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philologist · German · 1844 – 1900

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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that _x000D_ was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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