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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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 the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty
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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.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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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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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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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.
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
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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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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
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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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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
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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?