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It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life


Friedrich Nietzsche

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"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...
PETER SLOTERDIJK Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in grati...
STANLEY HAUERWAS The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do wit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartme...
WELLS TOWER We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to ste...
SOSUKE AIZEN We didn't match up well from the beginning and the foul trouble only made it worse. We got killed on...
MATT FISHER It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.
MLADEN ĐORđEVIć It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there ...
ROMAN PAYNE The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl...
BARNEY FRANK Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man root...
JOSEPH CONRAD All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wor...
FELIX FRANKFURTER Humans are the most intelligent creation on earth, according to all those that responded to the surv...
DAVID CHARLES BONSALL Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.
MIKE DEWINE That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we h...
BIBLE Life has no beginning and no ending. It only begins right after your birth and end right after your ...
THE INSPIRATIONIST Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Pa...
PAULO COELHO The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerate...
STARHAWK Everyone propels at different stages of their life. Just keep calm, work on it and wait on your righ...
HOPAL GREEN He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something yo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If you plan of helping you don't need of saying it, act on it.
ANN MARIE AGUILAR In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Life is a gift...
Life is a test...
Life is temporary assignment....
RICK WARREN It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which firs...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The world will go on with or without humanity.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS [Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the vario...
CONRAD RUDOLPH The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a b...
KAT EDMONSON That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the ...
ERIC MCCORMACK In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a p...
ADRIENNE RICH But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
MANUEL MONGRAIN Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Fallacies about Christianity must always be f...
DONALD O. SOPER Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say tha...
AHMED BEN BELLA I just threw it on the net and it happened to find its way in.
MATT HARTMAN A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it...
KALLISTOS WARE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by...
OSCAR WILDE Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life a...
MARC CHAGALL We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under a...
WALTER BENJAMIN Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by...
KENNETH L. PIKE We never have to be uncertain when we have the God of truth and righteousness.
TELEMA W. OKOBI To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventin...
HOWARD JACOBSON Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the ...
HERBERT READ Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best...
JOSIAH ROYCE The everlasting and exclusive coming-to-be, the impermanence of everything actual, which constantly ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible i...
DAVID ELLIOTT Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE I made a move on the guy and I was open. Dustin got hit when he threw it and the ball was a little s...
BRENT CELEK But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need...
RON RASH The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
PIERRE JOSEPH PROUDHON The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
COLIN POWELL I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my...
GRANDMA MOSES I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my...
GRANDMA MOSES Consider the fruit of the Spirit; that is what the Christian life should be.
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W. M. RAMSAY Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a hum...
ABHIJIT NASKAR It took on a life of its own.
RICHARD ESTRADA A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romant...
JULIE BURCHILL In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of li...
MARC CHAGALL Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
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CHARLIE PIERCE When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
SANJO JENDAYI Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Fear is the mother of morality.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them sh...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those wi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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 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 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.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to acc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not e...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as some...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I have used these weeks to revalue values. Do you understand this expression? When you come right do...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking h...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher polit...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to mar...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Better know nothing than half-know many things
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
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 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.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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