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Letter "F" » Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
«Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose»
«One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes»
«Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
afflicts,
decline,
depressed,
dynamometer,
impotence,
physiologically,
proximity,
recalls,
reckoned,
weakens
«A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play»
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books»
«Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule»
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
believes,
bricks,
brick in,
building,
built,
destroyed,
discovers,
material,
nonetheless,
philosopher,
philosophy,
possess,
posterity,
that is to say,
The Brick,
The Building,
The Philosopher,
used
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
appears,
biographies,
boat,
carries,
confused,
confusion,
launch,
launches,
launching,
nearly,
stream,
The Force
«A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.»
«It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
clear-sighted,
delusion,
judgments,
Old Course,
rebirth,
sighted,
subject to,
The old man,
weariness,
well-being