Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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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 unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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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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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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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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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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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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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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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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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.