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Biography : German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist whose work deeply influenced modern thought.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Quotes

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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enemy

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

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality /

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?
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love

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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truth

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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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.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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artist

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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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.
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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writing

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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