Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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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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The Gay Science, section 108.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?