Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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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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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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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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"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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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.