Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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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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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
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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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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.