In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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About Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel....

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

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My work is a game, a very serious game.

—M. C. Escher

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