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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Brother, Self

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing, One Thing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tasks, Genius, Individual

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage, Interesting, Conversation

A life without music is an error.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Errors, Music Is, Life Without Music

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Parent, Psychology, Idleness

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Insecure, People, Missing

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Warrior, Age
Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Political, Working Together, Encounters

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Crooked, Freethinker
"The Very Best of Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes from a Great Thinker" by David Graham, (p. 4), September 22, 2014.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Enemy, Nihilism, Want

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Climbing, Play, Risk
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.276, Penguin UK

Faith is the path of least resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Path, Resistance, Path Of Least Resistance

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Men, Light
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.209, Courier Corporation

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Caring, Soul, Shadow

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, World, Real World
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance, Real, Dancer

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Marriage, Two
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.53, Algora Publishing

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Tree, Fruit

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Dust, Tree
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

Friedrich Nietzsche
May, Pieces, Ethics

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance, Brother, Heart

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom, Responsibility, Responsible
"Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sect. 38, 1888.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Profound, Needs, Growing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Change, Acceptance
"Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

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