Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
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Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
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Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
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Man makes god in his own image.
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In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
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What is the seal of liberation? - No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.
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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.