"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

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"The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation."

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"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."

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Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! . . . Let it not fly away from the earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings. . . . Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth-yes, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning!"

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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

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"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."

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"Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example."

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