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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"The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways."

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"The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous."

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"What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew."

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"Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight."

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"Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat."

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"The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself."

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"Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand."

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"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off."

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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

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"It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention."

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"The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things."

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"I am almost equal to a shadow."

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"Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy."

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"The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."

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"Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se."

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"The melancholia of everything completed!"

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"Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?"

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"Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it."

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"Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement."

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