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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
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"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
354 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: individuality
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
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"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: insanity, society
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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: faith
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory
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"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Art is the proper task of life. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, inspirational, life
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"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: religion
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"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Man is the cruelest animal."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: failure, intelligence, process, science, scientific, success, truth
38 people liked it

"What labels me, negates me."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Only sick music makes money today."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: sinister
24 people liked it

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

25 people liked it

"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Invisible threads are the strongest ties"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: connection, invisibility, thread, ties
19 people liked it

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: love
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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: anarchy, lies
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"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All)

tags: inspirational
12 people liked it

"All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: writing
12 people liked it

"Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell..."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None)

7 people liked it

"Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

8 people liked it

"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

7 people liked it

""Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None)

8 people liked it

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None)

4 people liked it

"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: possibility, profundity, thought
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"Every talent must unfold itself in fighting"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

4 people liked it

"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

4 people liked it

"the lie is a condition of life."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.

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— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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