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Letter "F" » Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
«We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
belong to,
climbing,
close to,
custom,
dancing,
leaping,
lonesome,
mountains,
open air,
paths,
preference,
prompt,
prompting,
The Sea,
thoughtful
«The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite»
«Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
call into question,
crushed,
dangerously,
downtrodden,
undermine,
undermined,
undermines,
undermining,
weakest
«A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.»
«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.»
«The masses seem to me worthy of notice in only three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, produced on bad paper with worn plates, further as a resistance to the great, and finally as the tools of the great; beyond that, may the devil and s»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
blur,
blurred,
blurring,
blurs,
copies,
masses,
plates,
produced,
resistance,
respects,
The Masses,
worn
«A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
afterwards,
agent,
bath,
letters,
postman,
receiving,
reserve,
rude,
surprises,
The Agent,
The Postman,
unannounced,
visit
«The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
conclusion,
dared,
draw,
machine,
premise,
premised,
premises,
press,
railway,
railways,
telegraph,
The Machine,
the press,
The Telegraph
«Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all»
«One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
digging up,
digs,
dig in,
dig into,
dig out,
dig up,
dug,
hidden,
hide out,
last,
mined,
mines,
mining,
own,
self,
The Last,
treasure,
well