Friedrich Nietzsche

(86 votes)   We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(85 votes)   One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(83 votes)   It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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(83 votes)   Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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(79 votes)   We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(78 votes)   We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(77 votes)   He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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(76 votes)   ''To give style'' to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(76 votes)   Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(75 votes)   Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

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(73 votes)   He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

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(73 votes)   What is wanted -- whether this is admitted or not -- is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(72 votes)   Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(71 votes)   A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

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1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(70 votes)   A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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