Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Success has always been a great liar.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The future influences the present just as much as the past.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Fear is the mother of morality.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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