Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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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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You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
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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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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
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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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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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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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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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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.
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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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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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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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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.