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| I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.'' | | Uncategorized | |
I do not love my neighbor near,
but wish he were high up and far.
How else could he become my star? | | Uncategorized | |
| I draw circles and sacred boundaries about me; fewer and fewer climb with me up higher and higher mountains.—I am building a mountain chain out of ever-holier mountains. | | Uncategorized | |
| I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. | | Uncategorized | |
| I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar. | | Uncategorized | |
| I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite. | | Uncategorized | |
| I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . . | | Uncategorized | |
| I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh | | Uncategorized | |
| I love those who do not know how to live for today. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all. | | Uncategorized | |
| I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. | | Uncategorized | |
| I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer! | | Uncategorized | |
| I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. | | Dancing; God | |
| I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you | | Uncategorized | |
| Idleness is the parent of all psychology | | Idleness | |
| If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. | | Uncategorized | |
