Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.
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You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;Great agony always compels you,The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;But no one thanks you any longer …
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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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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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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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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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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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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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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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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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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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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Some men are born posthumously.
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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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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.