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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Im Gebirge der Wahrheit kletterst du nie umsonst: Entweder du kommst schon heute weiter hinauf oder übst deine Kräfte, um morgen höher steigen zu können.
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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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
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 refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
