Friedrich Nietzsche
"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
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"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Plato was a bore."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I am one thing, my writings are another."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The overman... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the proper task of life."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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