Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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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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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.
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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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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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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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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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.
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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.