Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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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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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
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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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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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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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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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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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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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There's no defense against stupidity.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
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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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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.