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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.
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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! -Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …
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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche