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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.


Caspar David Friedrich

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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FRIEDRICH ENGELS Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman was God's second mistake.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with trut...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, b...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
FRIEDRICH HEBBEL In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian,...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
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