Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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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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Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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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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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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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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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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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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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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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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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.