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Quotes from Twilight of the Idols — Friedrich Nietzsche

1844–1900 Germany

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

Only thoughts reached by walking have value.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

Light feet, the first attribute of divinity.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

Any one of the laws of life is fulfilled by the definite cannon “thou shalt.” “Thou shalt not,” and any sort of obstacle or hostile element in the road of life, is thus cleared away.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty—he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world—alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Twilight of the Idols (1888)

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge ... I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.

Twilight of the Idols (1889)

‘Equality’, a certain definite process of making everybody uniform, which only finds its expression in the theory of equal rights, is essentially bound up with a declining culture: the chasm between man and man, class and class, the multiplicity of types, the will to be one’s self and to distinguish one’s self – that, in fact, which I call the pathos of distance is proper to all strong ages.

Twilight of the Idols (1911)

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