Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.
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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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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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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.