Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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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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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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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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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
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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.
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.