Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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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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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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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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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
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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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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.