Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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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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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
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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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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.