Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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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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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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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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Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.-Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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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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Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
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But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.