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“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”

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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“History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.”

Belief Senses Falsehood

Book:The Essential Nietzsche

Source: The Essential Nietzsche

“Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.”

Knows Feet Bird Flight Height Related Aspiration Ecstasy Abyss

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

Whole Choices Childhood Events Birth Advantage This Day Rejoice My Birthday

Book:Ecce Homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“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.”

Should Force Confusion Boat Streams Confused Carrie Biographies

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

Thinking Book Path Air Sea Walking Mountain Dancing Thoughtful Customs Climbing Preference Lonesome

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.”

Years Ideas Duty Contrary Experiments Mysterious Disappointed Desirable Seekers Calamity Trickery Liberators

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

“It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.”

Mean Jesus Christ Interesting Known Jesus Christ Charm Sublime Mixtures Most Interesting Stirring Childlike Dostoyevsky

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.”

Book:BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past

Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past

“That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.”

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Book:Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.”

Hard Spirit Habit Oneself Midst Cheerful Cheerfulness Hardness Hard Truths

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche