Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.