Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
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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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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.