Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
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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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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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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
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Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
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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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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.