Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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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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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.