Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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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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Man must become better and more evil.
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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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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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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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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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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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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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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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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?