Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
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Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
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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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The doer alone learneth.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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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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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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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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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.