Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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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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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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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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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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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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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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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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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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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.