Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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Das Empörende an einer individuellen Lebensart. - Alle sehr individuellen Maassregeln des Lebens bringen die Menschen gegen Den, der sie ergreift, auf; sie fühlen sich durch die aussergewöhnliche Behandlung, welche jener sich angedeihen lässt, erniedrigt, als gewöhnliche Wesen.
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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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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.