Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
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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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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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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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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.