Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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Love as a passion – it is our European specialty – must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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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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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.