Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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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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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.