Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.
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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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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
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I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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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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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.