Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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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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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:you-are the stone, the desert, are death ...
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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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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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
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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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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.