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“The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.”

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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Needs Mean Cases Degrees Distinction Consolation Assertion

Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.”

Ifs World Ideas Would Be Modern Mankind Greatness Particular Diversity Bases Philosopher Corners These Days Range Midst Compelled Totality Multiplicity Specialty

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.”

Made Names Laughing Issues Influence Special Interpretation Correspondence Charmed Anti Semitic Zarathustra

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

Years Two Soul Facts Happens Hate Fighting Nations Taught Couple Thousand Ocean Years Ago Crosses Bridges Streams Continents Thousand Years Constructs Two Nations

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

Reason Opinion Tone

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.”

Want Firsts Matter Our Lives Poet Everyday Smallest

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.”

Men Would Be Secret Principles Path Equal Destruction Agents Nothingness Hostile Weariness Dissolution

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.”

Ifs Goal Successful Passionate Pursuit Being Successful Relentless Relentless Pursuit

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“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.”

Giving Self Christian Belief Clear Morality Giving Up Oneself Spite Latter Again And Again Evident Christian Morality

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“The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.”

Men Littles Different Feelings Beautiful Certain Values Cases Conditions Type Different Things Preservation Herds

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche