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Quotes by 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.
- I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
- I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
- I love those who do not know how to live for today.
- I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
- If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
- In music the passions enjoy themselves.
- 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.
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
- Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
- Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
- 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.
- It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
- It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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