"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."
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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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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long…
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people…
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I…
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It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of…
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not…
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment,…
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The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang…
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had…
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To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also…
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
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