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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Did you ever say "yes" to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are always in our own company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Become who you are!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
