Friedrich Nietzsche
German poet and philosopher
Lived from: 1844 - 1900
Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: Germany
Born: 15 october 1844 Died: 25 august 1900
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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