Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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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 refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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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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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).