Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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 the stillest words that bring the storm.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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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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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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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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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Love as a passion – it is our European specialty – must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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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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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.