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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.”

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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“The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!”

Truth Knowledge Vulgarity

Book:Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's

Source: Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's

“On every parable you ride to every truth.”

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.”

World Believe Philosophy Whole Moments Opposites Philosophical Whole World

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.”

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Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.”

Doe Ideas Soul Belief Influence Cold Rising Horizon Warmth Decline Temperature Hottest

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche