Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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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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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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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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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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Unglück. - Die Auszeichnung, welche im Unglück liegt (als ob es ein Zeichen von Flachheit, Anspruchslosigkeit, Gewöhnlichkeit sei, sich glücklich zu fühlen), ist so gross, dass wenn Jemand Einem sagt: 'Aber wie glücklich Sie sind!' man gewöhnlich protestirt.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.