Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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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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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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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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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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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
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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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There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of 'aristocrats of the spirit,' reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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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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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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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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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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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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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.