Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
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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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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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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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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.