Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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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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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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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 world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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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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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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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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How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!
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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him 'better.'
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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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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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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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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All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward - this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul.'
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.