Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.