Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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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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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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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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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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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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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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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.