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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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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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You shall become the person you are.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We are always in our own company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Become who you are!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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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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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
Friedrich Nietzsche