Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
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Success has always been a great liar.
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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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 strongest have their moments of fatigue.
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.
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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.
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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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Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome.
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.