Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
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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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We can destroy only as creators.
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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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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker’s sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of 'equal' rights.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
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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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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.