Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.
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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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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysischen Thätigkeit dieses Lebens im Sinne des Mannes überzeugt bin, dem ich hier, als meinem erhabenen Vorkämpfer auf dieser Bahn, diese Schrift gewidmet haben will.
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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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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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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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The doer alone learneth.
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It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.
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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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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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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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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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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.