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“The English are a nation of consummate cant.”

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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“Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.”

Way Needs Littles Long Soul Ends Moments Dream Spirit Economy Habit Experience Sensitive Broads Waking Cheerful Our Dreams Daylight

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.”

Thinking Littles Matter Too Much Experience Appetite Simpletons Colic

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.”

People Humans Important Human Beings Cases Painting Originals Encounters Copies Imitation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.”

Ifs Persons Creativity Events Rain Welcome Rejection Sunshine Deficiency Fertility Negation Manure

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.”

Given Creativity Birth Saved Pregnancy Thread Hung Suspended

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.”

Knows Want Persons Creativity Creating Instruments Slave Creator Devoted Exchanging

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pain makes hens and poets cackle.”

Pain Creativity Poet Hens

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.”

Moments Joy Difficult Behinds Wonderful Joyful Difficult Moments Wonderful Moments

Book:Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

Source: Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.”

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Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.”

Men Play Artist Creative Activity Assuming Rapture

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche