Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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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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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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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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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
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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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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.