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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Power, Doe

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Knowing, Opinion

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Mean, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Friday, Atheist

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Educational, Atheism

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Meaningful, Religious, Truth

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Eye, Long

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion, God Exists, Lure
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Games, Play

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Character, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Knowledge, Science
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hard
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.229, Modern Library

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid, Two, People
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Veils, Action, Illusion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy: Or Hellenism and Pessimism”, p.66, The Floating Press

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mistake, Errors, Lasts
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Philosophical, Goal

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Discovery, Personality
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Errors, Self

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Art, Fools Day

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Hate, Fallen

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Way, Fraternity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Greatness, Suffering

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Imperfect, Tense, Existence

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Embodiment, Experiments, Susceptible
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.84, Courier Corporation

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Age, Heroism

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