Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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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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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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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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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
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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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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.