Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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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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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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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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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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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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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
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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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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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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.