Friedrich Nietzsche

(36 votes)   Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(36 votes)   If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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(36 votes)   The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

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(36 votes)   There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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(36 votes)   When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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(35 votes)   Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

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(35 votes)   To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

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(34 votes)   Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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(34 votes)   Plato was a bore.

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(34 votes)   There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil.

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(34 votes)   To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

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(34 votes)   Without music, life would be a mistake.

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(33 votes)   In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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(33 votes)   The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

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(33 votes)   This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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