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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
