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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it. View quote
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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. View quote
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. View quote
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The idealist is incorrigible if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. View quote
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. View quote
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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. View quote
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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary. View quote
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. View quote
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. View quote
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. View quote
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. View quote
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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. View quote
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. View quote
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be. View quote
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again. View quote
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. View quote
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man. View quote
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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. View quote
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry. View quote
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. View quote
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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them! View quote
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. View quote
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