Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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All truths are bloody truths to me.
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
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And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
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I tell the story of these philosophers in simplified form: I merely wish to bring out in each system that point which represents a piece of the personality, and which history must preserve as a part of what is irrefutable and indisputable.
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Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein.
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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No victor believes in chance.
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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
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The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.