Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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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.
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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'
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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 must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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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.
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Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
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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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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.