"To have to fight the instincts - that……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct."
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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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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
— Raymond Queneau
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the…
— Horace Mann
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It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any…
— Ken Wilber
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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