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3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

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.’

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

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?

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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