Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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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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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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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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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?