Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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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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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.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.