#friedrich nietzsche

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

_Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human_

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

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When Nietzsche said You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star, and Anaïs Nin said In chaos there ...

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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That faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens

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Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.

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The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those that cannot fly.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud. Thus, even at

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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Set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish

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Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once

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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation

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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without,

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What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for

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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now

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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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To live alone one must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both — a philosopher.

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