Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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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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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.