Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
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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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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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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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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.
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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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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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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.
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
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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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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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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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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.