Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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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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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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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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I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
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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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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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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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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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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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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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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.