Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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 voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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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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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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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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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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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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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.
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One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!
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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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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.