Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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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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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
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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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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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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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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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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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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 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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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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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 true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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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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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.