Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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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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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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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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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.