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Nietzsche, Friedrich

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1869) was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which involves a questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. Often referred to as one of the first existentialist philosophers along with Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855).

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“»Koliko je malo potrebno za sreću! Ono najsitnije, najnježnije,najlaganije, kao šuškanje guštera, dah, treptaj, pogled - ono najmanjepruža najveću sreću. Budi spokojan«”
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“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music.”
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“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…”
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“Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art”
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“What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.”
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“Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. ”
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“The pure soul is a pure lie.”
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“if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need tosearch.”
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“Ich sage euch: man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.”
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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”
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“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
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“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
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“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”
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