Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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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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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
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Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
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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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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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You shall become the person you are.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.