Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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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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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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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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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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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of 'good' and 'bad,' 'true' and 'false' in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
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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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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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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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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.