Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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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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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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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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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.
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.