"Possessions are usually diminished by possession." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Possessions are usually diminished by possession."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened,…
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the…
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing…
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the…
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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that…
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears…
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