Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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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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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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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.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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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.