Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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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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Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker’s sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of 'equal' rights.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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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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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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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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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.