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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Words
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Right
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Chaos
Dancing
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
War
Cause
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Machine
Press
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience
Evil
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Followers
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Life
Living
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Idea
Voice
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Day
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue
Blame
Madness
Praise
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Care
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shame
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Argument
Existence
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Father