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Existential Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie…
- It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing…
- One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
- This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own…
- In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the…
- All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
- Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
- Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
- No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
- The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself…
- One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
- All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
- I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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