Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. 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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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
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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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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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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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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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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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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.