"Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes."
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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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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
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