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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Biography : German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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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.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






Success has always been a great liar.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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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.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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