"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on religion
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality   

"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality
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"Success has always been a great liar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on success   

"Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on beggars
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on thoughts and thinking
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wisdom   

"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity
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"Christianity makes suffering contagious."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity
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"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on atheism
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"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy"

Kant, Immanuel on happiness
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on paradise
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on humankind
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on image
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on jesus christ
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"He who laughs best today, will also laugh last."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on laughter
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"I love those who do not know how to live for today."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on marriage
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on music
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on necessity
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"Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on opinions
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"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."

Kant, Immanuel on life
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