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Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only—annihilation.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: German

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You look upward when you long for elevation. And I look down because I am elevated.

It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer.

I would fain do something to make the idea of life to us to be more than friends in the sense of that sublime possibility.

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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.

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