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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Friedrich Nietzsche