Nietzsche

philosophy
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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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Source: Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883-1885 - Part IV, 'On the Higher Man', §20

Genuine Nietzsche. German original: 'Und verloren sei uns der Tag, wo nicht Ein Mal getanzt wurde! Und falsch heisse uns jede Wahrheit, bei der es nicht Ein Gelaechter gab!' The English here is a common paraphrastic rendering ('we should consider every day lost...') rather than a literal translation of the imperative, but the source is not in doubt.

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Anything that has been explained ceases to interest us.

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Source: Jenseits von Gut und Boese (Beyond Good and Evil), Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886 - §80

Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 80 opens 'Was erklaert worden ist, das geht uns Nichts mehr an' - most commonly rendered 'A thing that is explained ceases to concern us.' The corpus wording ('Anything that has been explained ceases to interest us') is a variant translation of the same line, not a separate quotation. Source is secure; only the English rendering differs.

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