Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
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Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
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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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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.