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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Interesting, Way
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.173, Modern Library

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Sensual, Asceticism

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear, Giving, Atheism

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Powerful, Badass

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Evil, Matter
"Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Achieve
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Soul, Body
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.40, e-artnow

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Cheerful, Spirit, Habit
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.720, Modern Library

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Rope, Beast
"Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist".

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Men, Doe

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude, Men, Two
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Punishment, Resistance, Consciousness
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.54, Courier Corporation

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Numbers, World, Ends
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.76, 谷月社

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Apology, Hands
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, World, Tolerate

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, Lions, Sacred
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Failure, Fate, Men
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Giving, World
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.567, Vintage

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, War, Drug

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tasks, Attention, Recuperation

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Creative, Causes

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal, Men, Rope
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Him, Soul, All Things
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.22, e-artnow

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotional, Feelings, Tongue
'Menschliches, Allzumenschliches' (1867-80) vol. 2, sect. 1, no. 202

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Death, Suicide, Children
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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