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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame
Praise
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life
Lie
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian
Resolution
Ugly
World
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Desire
Harm
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art
Gratitude
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Future
Past
Present
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life
Consideration
Value
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Death
Life
Being
Living
Saying
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Goal
Pursuit
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man
Memory
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness
Nations
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Mother
Father
Illusion
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Light