Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Some men are born posthumously.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!
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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
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No artist tolerates reality.