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Quotes from The Gay Science — Friedrich Nietzsche

1844–1900 Germany

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.

The Gay Science (1882)

God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all..

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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously.

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Gott ist tot! Gott bleibt tot! Und wir haben ihn getötet.

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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!

The Gay Science (1882)

God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

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You see what it was that really triumphed over the Christian God: Christian morality itself, the concept of truthfulness that was understood more rigorously, the father confessor’s refinement of the Christian conscience, translated and sublimated into a scientific conscience, into intellectual cleanliness at any price.

The Gay Science (1882)

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