Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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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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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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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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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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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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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
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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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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.