Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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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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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future 'masters of the earth'...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.