Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.