Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.
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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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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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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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The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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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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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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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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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .