Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:you-are the stone, the desert, are death ...
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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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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.