Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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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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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.