Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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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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Yes, life is a woman!
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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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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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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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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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
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The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
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People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.
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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.