Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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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.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.