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.'

Born
October 15, 1844
Died
August 25, 1900
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"Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more."

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"The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills."

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"A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown."

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"If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent."

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"Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk."

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"When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do."

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"The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious."

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"THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?"

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"The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that."

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"Was that life? Well then, once more!"

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"No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes."

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"They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!"

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"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."

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"The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick."

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"There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'"

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"Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added)."

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"In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire."

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