Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fear is the mother of morality."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Woman was God's second mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."
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
"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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