Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”"
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"“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Some men are born posthumously."
Friedrich Nietzsche The Anti-Christ
"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you know the why, you can live any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining punishment and being supposed to punish hurts it, arouses fear in it. Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?Punishing itself is terrible. With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence."
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
"Art is the proper task of life."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Sensuality often hastens the Growth of Love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."
Friedrich Nietzsche The Portable Nietzsche
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations
"“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche The Will to Power
"“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“Plato was a bore.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
"The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them."
Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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