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Letter "F" » Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
«Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
as yet, exercises, influence, lays, The Law
«''To give style'' to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
appears, artistic, delight, exercises, Moulds, presents, rare, style, surveyed, surveying, surveys, The Art of Reasoning, The Eye, weakness, weaknesses
«The future influences the present just as much as the past.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Future,
Influence
| Keywords:
influences
«Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Memory
| Keywords:
fails, original, thinker
«People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Confidence,
Gifts,
Trust
| Keywords:
complete, conferring, confers, confer with, false, inference, inferences, no confidence, ours, rights
«Called a star's orbit to pursue,What is the darkness, star, to you?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
called, darkness, orbit, orbits, pursue, star, the darkness
«He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
acquire, bread, destroy, digestion, fretful, outlook, prefer, prefers, undoubtedly, useful
«Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
art, artist, become, longer, no longer, work, working man, work of art
«The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bad, Christian, made, resolution, The Christian, ugliest, ugly
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