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View Plans“ ”Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness — that means cynically and with innocence.
About Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.
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Additional quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.
The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.