Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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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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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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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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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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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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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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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 can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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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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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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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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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.