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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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