Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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 one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
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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 is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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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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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.