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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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Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!
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Become who you are!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 



Become who you are!




He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 



He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

Image attribution  Background photo by Etienne Bösiger on Unsplash





And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.
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My happiness should justify existence itself!
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.
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But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 



But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.

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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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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.
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You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
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Your own senses you shall think to the end!
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Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken, big and tall.
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But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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Body am I, and soul'–so says the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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