Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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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.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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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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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.
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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.
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
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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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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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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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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
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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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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.