Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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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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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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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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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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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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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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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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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.