Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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The free man is a warrior.
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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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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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
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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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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.