"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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"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on excellence
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on joy
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important"

Kierkegaard, Søren on concentration   

"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox."

Kierkegaard, Søren on understanding
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

Kierkegaard, Søren on tyranny   

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on humankind
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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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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fanatics and fanaticism
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"How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature."

Kierkegaard, Søren on talkativeness
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"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom   

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

Kierkegaard, Søren on personality
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"What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion."

Kierkegaard, Søren on passion
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"Once you label me you negate me."

Kierkegaard, Søren on names
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"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority."

Kierkegaard, Søren on minorities
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"The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering."

Kierkegaard, Søren on art   

"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes."

Kierkegaard, Søren on memory   

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

Kierkegaard, Søren on anxiety
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment."

Kierkegaard, Søren on philosophers and philosophy   

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."

Kierkegaard, Søren on pleasure