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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”

Judging Guilt Convinced Existentialism Witch Nevertheless Witchery

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”

Life Lasts Values Judgment Stupidity Being True Consideration Symptoms Resorts

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

Art Reality Truth Nature Art Is Imitation Metaphysical Conquest Supplements

Book:The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy

Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy

“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”

Laughing Cry Laughter

Book:The barber of Seville ; The marriage of Figaro ; The guilty mother: three plays

Source: The barber of Seville ; The marriage of Figaro ; The guilty mother: three plays

“When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.”

Knows Way House Process Realizing Worst Building Needed Experience Finished

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”

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Book:The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals

Source: The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals

“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche