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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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who 'reduced to absurdity' 'the wisdom of this world' (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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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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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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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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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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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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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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Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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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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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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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.