Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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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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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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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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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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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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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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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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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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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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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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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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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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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.