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Danger Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
- How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft.…
- A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
- Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect…
- The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
- We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances…
- The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
- There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
- Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
- One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
- With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is…
- What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
- The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows…
- The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
- The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants…
- The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head,…
- The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of…
- Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
- Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
- We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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