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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.


Friedrich Schlegel

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does n...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE O man! Take heed!
What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?
I slept my sleep--,
From deepest...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest sourc...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Appearance rules the world.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Great souls suffer in silence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Will it, and set to work briskly.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoi...
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Apho...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
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