Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher known for his critique of morality and religion, particularly through works like 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'

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Born
October 15, 1844
Died
August 25, 1900
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"O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!"

Eye Ignorance Simple
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"In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

Mean Pride Men
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"Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false."

Lying Men Light
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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

Arrogance Merit Offensive
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"Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit."

Science Men Self
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"If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish."

Weed Marijuana Smoking
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"Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning."

Brother Wall Giving Love
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"Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself."

Demon Be Careful Casts
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"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."

Ice Heat Debate
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"What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope."

Hope Suffering Heroic
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Love Broken Heart Men
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"He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul."

Peace Soul Desire
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"Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them."

Lying Men Talking
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"Become who you are!"

Who You Are
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"The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship."

Friendship Best Friend Marriage
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"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."

Memories Fate Men
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