Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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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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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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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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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.