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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche :
A bridge and not a goal What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
goals
Ceasing to be mind The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
change
Convictions Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
truth
Create one When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
fathers
Cure of love A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
love
Everything else is transitory When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
marriage
Except in Paris An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
art
Fame When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
gratefulness
For art to exist For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
art
It prolongs the torments of man Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
hope
It raises its head Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
art
Man alone who laughs Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
humor
Not necessity, not desire Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
food
Not wanting Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
religion
Our pride Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
pride
Respect the enemy in our friend Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
respect
Something to pardon If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
forgiveness
Success and failure A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
success
The overman The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
discipline
Washing my hands After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
religion
What makes us stronger That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
strength
Why live? He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
life
Without music Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
life
Wounded Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
pride
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