Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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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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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
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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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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.