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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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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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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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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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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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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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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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.