Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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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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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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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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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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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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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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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.