Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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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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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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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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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
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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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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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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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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.