Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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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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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
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Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
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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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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.