Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Existentialism
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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... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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