Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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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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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.