Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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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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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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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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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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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -
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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.