Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
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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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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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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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One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
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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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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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Some men are born posthumously.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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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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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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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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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.