Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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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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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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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.
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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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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
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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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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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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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Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.