Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
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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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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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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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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.