Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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Yes, life is a woman!
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.