Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;Great agony always compels you,The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;But no one thanks you any longer …
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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
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The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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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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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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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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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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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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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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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.