Astronomy Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

14 Astronomy quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s terse, provocative style turns the night sky into a backdrop for existential questioning. His words challenge readers to confront the infinite with both defiance and humility.

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I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

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“If you still experience the stars as something "over you," you still don't have the eyes of a knower.”

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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be…

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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems,…

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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his…

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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which…

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“Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they…

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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a…

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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder…

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“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which…

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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of…

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…

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“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…

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“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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