Friedrich Nietzsche

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"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
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."	Fear
"There are no facts, only interpretations."	Wisdom
"The future influences the present just as much as the past."	Wisdom
"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 advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."	Memory
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule."	Economics, Sanity
"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."	Sleep
"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."	Miscellaneous
"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."	Quotations
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."	Laughter
"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."	Success, Lies
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."	Love
"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."	Memory
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."	Enemies
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."	Fear
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."	Economics, Dancing
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."	Morality
"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 essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."	Art
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