Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The universe without music would be madness.
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.