Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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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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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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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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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?
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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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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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.