Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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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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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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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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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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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 courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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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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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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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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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?
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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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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.