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Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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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.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.


— Friedrich Nietzsche


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About Friedrich Nietzsche






Did you know about Friedrich Nietzsche?

J. In the following few days Nietzsche sent short writings—known as the Wahnbriefe ("Madness Letters")—to a number of friends (including Cosima Wagner and Jacob Burckhardt). Now with the new style of Zarathustra his work became even more alienating and the market received it only to the degree required by politeness.

Nietzsche's key ideas include the "death of God" the Übermensch the eternal recurrence the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy perspectivism and the will to power. His sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche acted as curator and editor of Nietzsche's manuscripts during his illness. [citation needed].

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