Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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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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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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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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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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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!