Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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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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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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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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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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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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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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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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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.