Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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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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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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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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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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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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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.