Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
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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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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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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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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
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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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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.