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Sense Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free…
- The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls…
- There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and…
- A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
- A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
- It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
- Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
- Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?…
- Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for…
- 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.
- I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.
- Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
- If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake…
- The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
- What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
- To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
- I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.…
- It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have…
- The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning,…
- Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense…
- It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
- Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
- Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,…
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