Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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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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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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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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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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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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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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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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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.