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Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
“All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.”
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I...
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“Art is the proper task of life. ”
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is in...
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
“Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknes...
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; th...
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as...
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
“If you know the why, you can live any how.”
“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and conf...
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are...
“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humani...
“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”
