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180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World

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Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche, a man of enviable facial hair and even more superior intelligence, is mostly known for his philosophical works, cultural criticism, and philological achievements that have profoundly influenced modern intellectual history. Although his life wasn’t a long one, the work he did over his active years has positively changed the world we live in. And if you’re looking for a positive change to your day, too, we present to you our list of Nietzsche quotes that will definitely have the desired effect.

So, what should you expect from these philosophical quotes? Well, for starters, to deepen your knowledge of life itself and maybe even see the things around you in a different light. This might not happen the instant you read these Friedrich Nietzsche quotes, but they will definitely lay seeds in your head that will soon germinate into new, beautiful thoughts. And how could they not, when his quotes about life and everything it encompasses have literally changed history! So, even if you dislike the category of philosophy quotes, these are guaranteed to mesmerize you with their depth and intelligence.

So, buckle up and get ready for some undeniably moving quotes coming your way! They are, just, as usual, a bit further down, and once you are there, give the famous quote you just swore to live by your vote. After that’s all well and done, don’t forget to share this article with your friends!

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#1

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.”

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dana maree 2 years ago

Love... going to repost to FB

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#2

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Man is the cruelest animal.”

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dana maree 2 years ago

That is so true

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#3

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

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#4

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

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Anthony W. Pierson 2 years ago

Until the ones dancing started rubbing peanut butter on each other and then tickling themselves with peacock feathers....we started to wonder

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#5

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

This is the mindset that ends up exploiting nature, failing to appreciate her endless wonders. Such prefer flights of fancy to getting their hands dirty.

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#6

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

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Scott Travis 2 years ago

Do you have faith in that statement?

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#7

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

Speak for yourself, Nietzsche.

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#8

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

...missing you, poor brother Nietzsche

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#9

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

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When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere ...he took water and washed his hands, saying “I am innocent of this man’s blood”

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#10

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”

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Kay Young 2 years ago

Well, the Earth IS only 6,000 years old & we totally had dinosaur servants back in the day........

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180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”

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Antz Online 2 years ago

Could not of said it better.

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180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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Antz Online 2 years ago

My girlfriend left me because of my obsession with Linkin Park. But in the end, it doesn’t even matter.

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#13

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

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dana maree 2 years ago

Or wants money...

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#14

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”

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#15

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

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The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 2 years ago

Mob mentality

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#16

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Is free will a mistake? We're it, these writings of Nietzsche would not exist.

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#17

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

...said the base soul

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#18

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “No artist tolerates reality.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

The narcissist cannot see beyond his nose, to perceive the beauty all around.

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#19

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

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Anthony W. Pierson 2 years ago

However they are not good for making clothing....I knitted this kick a*s suit ensemble from invisible thread I had purchased from a kindly fellow behind a jo ann fabrics.....anywho....I knitted this suit decided to wear it to job interview...didn't get the job and was arrested for indecent exposure....hope it makes a stronger rope

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180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Love, too, has to be learned.”

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#21

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Sounds like a stalker

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#22

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

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Brendon Peterson 2 years ago

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. Buck up lil camper.

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#23

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

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kris ellison 1 year ago

Yea

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#24

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

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#25

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”

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dana maree 2 years ago

Agree

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#26

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

...not exactly a naturalist. (A close look at the animal kingdom reveals that we certainly do not have a corner on the LoL market.) But then this guy can't see past his nose.

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#27

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

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Kay Young 2 years ago

Scorpio life lol.

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#28

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”

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Samgraten Foddlebottle 2 years ago

Buck up is so annoying.

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#29

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, and simpler.”

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dana maree 2 years ago

True

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#30

180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

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Aaron Newman 1 year ago

Buck up needs to shut up

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180 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

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#32

“Become who you are!”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

It's our ability to change the things we don't like about ourselves that makes us progress through life; gain a sense of self-respect and accomplishment. It is the spoiled child who justifies his shortcomings and refuses to grow up.

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#33

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

...like a wolf in sheep's clothing

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#34

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

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... predecessor to TikTok. Why is this guy so preoccupied with entertaining himself? He often echoes the sentiment: "if you do not amuse me, I have no use for you." Nietzsche thinks he's in a movie. He deifies his own senses and objectifies others.

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#35

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

"...And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night"

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#36

“Live dangerously.”

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Anthony W. Pierson 2 years ago

Said the man who didn't answer the phone when I called for bail...go **** yourself

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#37

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

What is this, sympathy for the d*vil?

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#38

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

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Elizabeth Goodling 2 years ago

There you go, Buck Up.

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#39

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”

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Anthony W. Pierson 2 years ago

And if you really really really train it you will b able to magically ride an iridescent unicorn dolphin through the skies of gelzor but beware the evil goozlesnooches

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#40

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

And here we have the classic "destruction of the family unit." This guy really checks all the boxes. While studies demonstrate the profound happiness to be found in family, he offers the same tired trope: "I'm bored" (says the bore). This is the kind of kid that destroys beehives for entertainment, notwithstanding the sweetness they offer.

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#41

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

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KrackerJack43 Canni-Bliss 2 years ago

Unfortunate are the ones whom seek control. This just popped in my tiny little thought maker.

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#42

“There is a false saying: “How can someone who can’t save himself save others?” Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?”

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#43

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

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#44

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

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Margaret Hooper 2 years ago

Ah. I guess THAT explains American politics these days.

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#45

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

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Scott Travis 2 years ago

God created dance, silly.

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#46

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

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kris ellison 1 year ago

Yea

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#47

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

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#48

“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

Noble aspiration. Give him a gun and a Facebook manifesto.

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#49

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

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#50

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

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#51

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

Arrogance is the unwillingness to accept help.

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#52

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

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#53

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

It's okay Nietzsche, you wrote that in a suggestible state, on one of your drunken tears. We won't hold you accountable for your destructive words. Just say, "the devil made me do it."

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#54

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

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#55

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

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“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.” -Nietzsche

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#56

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Tell that to Stephen Hawking

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#57

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

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KrackerJack43 Canni-Bliss 2 years ago

Spot on.

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#58

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

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#59

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

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#60

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”

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kris ellison 1 year ago

Yup

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#61

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

And that's a fact

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#62

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

"Light has come into the world and the darkness comprehended it not"

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#63

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

...kinda like Nietzsche, despising all who do not gratify his interests

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#64

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

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Kay Young 2 years ago (edited)

"Feta, Gouda, chevre fromage." -Cheesus

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#65

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

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#66

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

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#67

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

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#68

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

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#69

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

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#70

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

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Anthony W. Pierson 2 years ago

Explain how a bird works

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#71

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”

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#72

“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”

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...says the guy who always hating on Christianity

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#73

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Your own or that of others as well?

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#74

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

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Crowley's "sex magic" hospitalized not a few. That's not love, but selfishness enshrined.

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#75

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

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"Woe unto the Earth, for the devil hath come down unto you having great wrath." Like you--Nietzsche--who cannot account for your own words, men are subject to influences of which they are unaware.

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#76

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

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Edin wells-minthorn 2 years ago

From 0 to crazy in 66 seconds

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#77

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

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#78

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

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Thee8thsense 2 years ago

Or makes us limp for our lifetime

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#79

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

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#80

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

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#81

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

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"the truth shall make you free"

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#82

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

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#83

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

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Command your own destiny. Be not a slave of circumstance.

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#84

“Art is the proper task of life.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

Tell that to the war torn, the impoverished, the disease stricken

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#85

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Who taught you, Nietzsche? And a cult following does not a wise man make.

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#86

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

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#87

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

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#88

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Bro all you did was start fires. Just cause it catches on don't mean it's worthwhile.

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#89

“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”

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#90

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”

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"Muddy the water, to make it appear deep" -Nietzsche

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#91

“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”

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#92

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

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"The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed."

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#93

“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”

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#94

“Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

...a ruse for escaping accountability

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#95

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

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#96

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.”

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#97

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

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Buck Up 2 years ago

... that was before twerking

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#98

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

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#99

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”

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#100

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

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#101

“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”

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#102

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

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#103

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

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Robert De Corah 2 years ago

He now fears the day he awaits while in hell's fire having to appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ to give an account for all the souls he mislead to hell. Revelation 20

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#104

“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

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Here he would rob humanity of one of the most precious gifts and put in its place self indulgence; the refusal to bear our burdens bravely. Such only make the loads of those around them heavier.

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#105

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

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Solitude is a poor substitute for peace. And fragile. Here he blames others to the point of being hateful. Such can only be at rest when all others are destroyed.

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#106

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Is he shilling for Big Pharma? What an ignorant thing to say. Skrillex, for example, says drugs hinder his art. Our libraries and galleries would be stripped of the most beloved treasures throughout human history, should we take Nietzsche's dull opinion as gospel.

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#107

“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”

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On the contrary, self-discipline is the key to freedom. And God's forgiveness, the antidote to shame.

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#108

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

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#109

“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”

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#110

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”

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Elizabeth Goodling 2 years ago

Many of our leaders would do well to heed this.

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#111

“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”

13points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

"I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars..." Is 14:13

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#112

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”

13points

Elizabeth Goodling 2 years ago

This is super, to address lived, embodied intelligence.

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#113

“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”

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#114

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”

13points

#115

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

13points

#116

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

13points

Buck Up 2 years ago

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#117

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

13points

#118

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

13points

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#119

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”

13points

#120

“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

13points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

...said the rapist

-3points

#121

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

12points

#122

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

It takes a lot of energy to hold up a false argument.

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#123

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

12points

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#124

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

12points

#125

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

... but you might want to look at a few blueprints

-3points

#126

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Most flowers do best in direct sunlight. Coincidentally, they're beautiful colors can better be seen.

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#127

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

12points

#128

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

12points

Moving Enigma 2 years ago

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#129

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

12points

#130

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

It is one of basest and most immature mindsets, to believe that good intentions trump the actual impact of our actions. A woman said she felt "nothing but pure love" when sacrificing her baby to Sat*n. She was on drugs, per Nietzsche's prescription, when commiting this act of "art."

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#131

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

12points

#132

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

"What does your conscience say? I'll tell you what your conscience says..." LOL

-3points

#133

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

...there goes the family. This guy thinks pretty highly of himself.

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#134

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

12points

#135

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Another of his many fault dichotomies.

-3points

#136

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

When everything is stated it absolutes, mental instability is afoot.

-3points

#137

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Rubbish

-2points

#138

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

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#139

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

12points

#140

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you”

12points

#141

“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: the first one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and delimit it as a separate life; then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity:—finally there comes a moment when we are used to it when we wait for it when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing: and now it continues to compel and enchant us relentlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it.

12points

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#142

“Only sick music makes money today.”

12points

#143

“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge–a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”

12points

#144

“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

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#145

“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Passions fade, that the object of one's desire may be seen for what it is. If that be precious, the spirit has triumphed over the flesh.

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#146

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

12points

#147

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Exalted in your own eyes ...hallmark of Luc*fer. (Isaiah 14)

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#148

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

...unless the two are in agreement

-2points

#149

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

12points

Buck Up 2 years ago

This guy really has a problem with morality.

-3points

#150

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

11points

#151

“In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

11points

kris ellison 1 year ago

Amen

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#152

“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.”

11points

#153

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

11points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Self-preoccupation is a potentially of consciousness. If it is overcome, the soul is safe to preserve.

-2points

#154

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

11points

Buck Up 2 years ago

To be admired is a selfish and short-sighted aspiration.

-2points

#155

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”

11points

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#156

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

11points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

God has been working feverishly to restore creation ever since it came under attack in that first generation. Said Jesus, "My Father is always working, and so am I.”

-2points

#157

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”

11points

#158

“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”

11points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Here here.

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#159

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

11points

#160

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

11points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Ah yes, the ineffectual intellectual, in a state of analysis paralysis. Again, supreme self-interest is prerequisite.

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#161

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago

Demons love to be called gods. And they lie. "For is given a man once to die, and then the judgment."

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#162

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

10points

#163

“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as possible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint, and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever-changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative, and risky.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago

The truth, I believe, is somewhere in the middle. Christ offers a safety net above which to experiment and learn without reproach.

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#164

“...Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'Here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

10points

#165

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

The will that seeks advantage over others is most depraved of all.

-2points

#166

“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”

10points

#167

“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago

It's amusing to hear this hater of God speak of immortality.

-2points

#168

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

This reads like a mass-shooter's manifesto. Supreme self-importance and disregard for others.

-2points

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#169

“I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago

"I have kept the Lord always before me, therefore I shall not be moved."

-2points

#170

“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago

...upon which your analogy of the tree is based. But alas, your today refutes your yesterday.

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#171

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

10points

#172

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago

So much for an equitable society. Elitist snob.

-2points

#173

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”

10points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

"When we know God as it is our privilege to, in obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses."

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#174

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

9points

#175

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

9points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Misogynist, like Crowley (who tells woman she is most exalted when fulfilling his carnal fantasies.)

-2points

#176

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

9points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

The conceited person will expend great energy in proving to himself that he is superior.

-2points

#177

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

9points

Buck Up 2 years ago

...gold for the Conquistador. Air for the air-breather.

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#178

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

9points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

It is often discouraging to believe that one's worth is the sum of their works.These shall never approach the great value that God places on each one of us. The more we realize this, the more freely shall good works flow.

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#179

“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”

9points

Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

The flock speaks of unity, not uniformity. Any husbanman knows that each animal has its own personality.

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#180

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”

9points

Buck Up 2 years ago

...marvelously picturesque? Man, it's feast or famine with this guy. How about a healthy self-image, balanced with appreciation for others.

-2points

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LostThought 2 years ago (edited)

Was Buck Up trying to troll Nietzsche? 122 years after his death?!

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Absolutely! A rotten legacy like his deserves a good smack-down. And according to Nietzsche, he's immortal. So let him defend himself.

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Liz-ard 2 years ago

180 quotes is faaaaar to many to lay my time on! Sorry but you lost me at nr 12.

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Buck Up 2 years ago

Some of his statements are salient, if not original. But poison with which they are intermingled renders the whole lot deadly.

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Delilah Simmons 1 year ago

.............. think about what you said

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LostThought 2 years ago (edited)

Was Buck Up trying to troll Nietzsche? 122 years after his death?!

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Buck Up 2 years ago (edited)

Absolutely! A rotten legacy like his deserves a good smack-down. And according to Nietzsche, he's immortal. So let him defend himself.

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Liz-ard 2 years ago

180 quotes is faaaaar to many to lay my time on! Sorry but you lost me at nr 12.

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Buck Up 2 years ago

Some of his statements are salient, if not original. But poison with which they are intermingled renders the whole lot deadly.

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Delilah Simmons 1 year ago

.............. think about what you said

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