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“Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?”

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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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“Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.”

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“For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.”

Men Values Pieces Keys Laughter Significant Treasure Iron Insignificant Scorn Chamber Men Women Hidden Treasure

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“Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.”

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Book:Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche

“About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.”

Knows Feels Persons Dream Certain Conscience Awake Our Dreams

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!”

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“This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.”

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“Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.”

Men Joy Achieve Strive Good Man Strife Cleverness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.”

Humans Reason Respect Shame Divinity Humane

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.”

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“Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche