Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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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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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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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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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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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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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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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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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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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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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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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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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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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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.