Ancient Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom”

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…

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“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…

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“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

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