Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
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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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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
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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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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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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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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.