Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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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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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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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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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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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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People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
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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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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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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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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.