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Language Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art…
- So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly…
- The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality:…
- It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
- The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,…
- On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images…
- 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…
- Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.
- To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience;…
- Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have…
- He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial…
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