Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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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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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.
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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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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.