Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
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There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.
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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
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Everything matters. Nothing's important.
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New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?
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People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
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Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.