Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
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The quest for philosophical beginnings is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.