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Play Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
- The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
- In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
- To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet…
- And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
- 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.
- Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
- The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
- Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
- The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,…
- It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so…
- A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play
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