720 ordspråk av Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to
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The falseness of an opinion is not, for us, any objection to it. The question is how far it is life furthering, life preserving, species preserving and perhaps species creating.
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The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things. . .
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't any.
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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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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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The great lie about immortality destroys every kind of reason, every kind of naturalness in the instincts.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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