German - Philosopher | October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
GoodPowerManFeelingWillItself
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
TogetherNothingOthersLiesLike
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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