Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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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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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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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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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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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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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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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.