Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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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.