Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving
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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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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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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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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.