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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. — Friedrich Schiller

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit. — Friedrich Schiller

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A — Friedrich Nietzsche

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue is the health of the soul, — Friedrich Nietzsche

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. — Friedrich Schiller

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels

Certitude drives people mad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth. — Friedrich Schiller

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. — Friedrich Schiller

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him
this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Life without music is a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Weep, for the light is dead. — Friedrich Schiller

Votes should be weighed not counted. — Friedrich Schiller

Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence — Friedrich Nietzsche

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller

{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! — Friedrich Nietzsche

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich Schiller

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to know the size of one's stomach. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What is rational is real and what is real is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. — Friedrich Nietzsche

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Modest humility is beauty's crown. — Friedrich Schiller

Human, all too human. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ. — Friedrich Nietzsche