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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
Friedrich Nietzsche