Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
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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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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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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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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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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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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
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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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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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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
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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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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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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.