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Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.
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Rather than cope with the unbearable loneliness of their condition men will continue to seek their shattered God, and for His sake they will love the very serpents that dwell among His ruins.
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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Age and truth. Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
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The civilized classes and nations are swept away by the grand rush for contemptible wealth. Never was the world worldlier, never was it emptier of love and goodness.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget[...] Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine 'love of one's enemies' is possible—supposing it to be possible at all on earth. How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!—and such reverence is a bridge to love.—For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor!
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Model for others. He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love.
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
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October 15, 1844
Died:
August 25, 1900
(aged 55)
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