Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
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Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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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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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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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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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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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!