Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer thut das
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No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.
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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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wir vermeinen, daß Härte, Gewaltsamkeit, Sklaverie, Gefahr auf der Gasse und im Herzen, Verborgenheit, Stoicismus, Versucherkunst und Teufelei jeder Art, daß alles Böse, Furchtbare, Tyrannische, Raubthier- und Schlangenhafte am Menschen so gut zur Erhöhung der Species »Mensch« dient, als sein Gegensatz...
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.
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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
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One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.