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- A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even…
- To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
- We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be…
- It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the…
- Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a…
- It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential…
- Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked…
- Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
- This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
- Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not…
- You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
- If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge,…
- The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
- Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
- All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
- No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
- Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in…
- What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that…
- 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…
- After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself:…
- Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ...…
- We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
- What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
- He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into…
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