Friedrich Nietzsche

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"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."	Fear
"Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!"	Fear
"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"	Fear
"The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task."	Fear
"Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature - is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned."	Fear
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."	Fear
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."	Fear
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."	Fear
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."	Fear
"There are no facts, only interpretations."	Wisdom
"The future influences the present just as much as the past."	Wisdom
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."	Wisdom
"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."	Quotations
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."	Economics, Dancing
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"	Economics, Dancing
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."	Government, Effort
"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them."	Memory
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."	Memory
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."	Morality
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule."	Economics, Sanity
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