Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.
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Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:you-are the stone, the desert, are death ...
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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
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"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.