Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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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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Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
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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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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.
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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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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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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.