Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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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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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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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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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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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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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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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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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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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.