Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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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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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum. Wir glauben nicht an ein Recht, das nicht auf der Macht ruht, sich durchzusetzen: wir empfinden alle Rechte als Eroberungen.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
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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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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.