"A man as he ought to be: that……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."
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1,640 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which…
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that…
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the…
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit…
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of…
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the…
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
— Anita Loos
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little…
— Edward Abbey
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There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A…
— Fanny Burney
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid…
— William James
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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas…
— E F Schumacher
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The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted…
— Samuel Johnson
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How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a…
— Donella Meadows
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Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand…
— Unknown Author
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