Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
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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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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
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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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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.