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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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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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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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
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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 a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
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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 you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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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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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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Everything matters. Nothing's important.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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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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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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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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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.