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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. Friedrich Nietzsche
God Day Great Poet Creation Seventh Would Would-Be Boredom Subject After
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgiveness Everything Pardon Something Also Condemn
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life People Men Difficult Christianity Other More Alleviating Instance Make Provides Offer Than Want Afterwards Them Reason Who Lives Prescription Chance
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche
Guilt Thus Nevertheless Most Witches Non-Existent Although Judges Were Themselves Convinced Even Acute
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche
Absolute Facts Truths Eternal
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Man Woman Evil Analysis Bad Best Man Even Last
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Friedrich Nietzsche
Open Because Hand Close Loves Hardest
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. Friedrich Nietzsche
War Good You Cause Say Unto Any Good Cause Even
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. Friedrich Nietzsche
Before Does Causes Effect Than Different After Believes
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth Truth Is Thought Shallow Mystical Explanations Deep Even
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. Friedrich Nietzsche
Good Humane Benefit Several Respects Good Reason General More General Good Could Suppose Instruction Gods Human Human Beings Us Reason Beings Humans
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche
Day Great Great Deal Hundred Pockets Put Deal
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. Friedrich Nietzsche
Interpretation Fact Established Necessity
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love Out Giver Open Hand Close Modest Keep Hardest
The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life Lie Condition
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. Friedrich Nietzsche
Together Communicate Nothing Others Secrecy Lies Like Much Seal
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. Friedrich Nietzsche
Men Party Rage Too Favor Him Always His Provoked Gained Against Whoever
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. Friedrich Schiller
First Laugh Point He Makes Loses Who Jest
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. Friedrich Schiller
Work Knowledge Three Action Object Factors Doer Motivate Senses Which Basis
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. Friedrich Schiller
Time Yourself Lose Seize Off Far Moment Thine
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. Friedrich Schiller
Heart Honor Men Own Other Minded Our Noble True Opinions Forms Us
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. Friedrich Schiller
Enthusiast Never Him Always Opposition Converts
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher
Religion Feeling Consists Absolute Essence Dependence
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. Georg Buchner
Revolution Own Like Children Saturn
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. Georg C. Lichtenberg
God Bible Man Own Philosophers Says Reverse His Process Create Created Image
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our Once Weaknesses Know Cease Any Us Harm
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