Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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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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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
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Life without music is no life at all.
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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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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
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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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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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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.