720 ordspråk av Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
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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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The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.
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The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness
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The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime -- it even presupposes it.
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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