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"But to attack the passions of life at their roots means attacking life itself !!" — Aug 05, 2026 12:52AM
"But to attack the passions of life at their roots means attacking life itself !!" — Aug 05, 2026 12:52AM
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
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“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
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“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
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