Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.
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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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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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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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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
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Convictions are prisons.
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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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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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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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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.