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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.


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(German, French)



German
Und verloren sei uns der Tag, wo nicht ein Mal getanzt wurde! Und falsch heiße uns jede Wahrheit, bei der es nicht ein Gelächter gab!

French
Que soit perdu pour nous le jour où l'on n'aurait pas au moins une fois dansé. Que soit appelée fausse pour nous toute vérité où il n'y aurait pas un éclat de rire !




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What forbids me from telling the truth with a laugh?

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.




Quotes for: day


Quotes

Quotes for: day


The sun is new each day.





Seize the day.





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.





You cannot hold the day back, but you can avoid wasting it.
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Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.











Quotes for: laughter


Quotes

Quotes for: laughter


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.











Quotes for: dance


Quotes

Quotes for: dance


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”





One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.





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.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...




Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;





Become who you are!





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.












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