Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.
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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.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
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Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
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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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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.