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Friedrich Nietzsche: top 100 quotes
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The Aphorism (n.) is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
The Aphorism (n.) is a form of eternity. If done right, it says more than what everyone else says in an entire book.
The Aphorism (n.) is a genre written in blood by authors who want not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
The Aphorism (n.) is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
Illness (n.) is, along with misery and imperfection, a backdoor giving one backdoor escapes from enduring habits.
Truth (n.) is very slow in its uncovering — Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
The Truth (n.) is, for many people, a dangerous, unwanted thing which destroys their illusions.
Truth (n.) is simply the name for those errors that we cannot give up.
Politics (n.) is that domain in which mankind is one of two things: A tool or an enemy.
Politics (n.) is a domain in which political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
Politics (n.) devours all seriousness for really intellectual things.
Revenge (n.) is more human than no revenge at all.
The Universe (n.) is a monster of energy, without beginning or end.
The Universe (n.) is only necessity... there is nobody who commands, nobody who obeys, nobody who trespasses, and since there is no purposes there is also no accident..
Interpretation (n.) is not a commentary on a preexisting text... what exist before the interpretation is not text but chaos.
Interpretation (n.) is not the expression, but the intrinsic organization, the 'morphology' of power.
Interpretation (n.) is not the process of cognition through which the agent discovers the world as it is already constituted: On the contrary, it is the process through which he creates the world as he goes along.
Interpretation (n.) is synonymous with imposing sense, with molding chaos, with drawing a world of luminous figures out of what is hidden by the night of ignorance, impotence, and death.
Interpretation (n.) is the means by which identities are formed, and power is an inherent aspect of that process.
Interpretation (n.) is the needs of our drives... their For and Against, their individual perspectives and lust to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.
Interpretation (n.) is the violent or surreptitious appropriation of a system of rules which in itself has no essential meaning.
Corruption (n.) is the warlike passions transmuted into countless private passions. as such, it is precisely in times of corruption and 'exhaustion (i.e. times when tragedy runs through houses and streets) that great love and great hatred are born and that the flame of knowledge flares up into the sky.
Corruption (n.) is a quality of men who possess a refined cruelty - witty and slanderous. Such men know types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault.
Song (n.) is an expression of enchantment whereby man forgets how to speak and is on the way into flying into the air.
Rhythm (n.) is utilitarian in its origins. It is a more memorable form of speech, is audible over greater distances (due to it's tick-tock nature), and possesses a force which engenders an unconquerable urge to yield and join in and to compel (even the Gods).