Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
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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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The free man is a warrior.
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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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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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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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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!
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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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Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods.
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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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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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.