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“ ”Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, <i>only</i> moral and which relegates art, <i>every</i> art, to the realm of <i>lies</i>; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.
Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.