Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.
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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
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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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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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We can destroy only as creators.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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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 good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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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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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future 'masters of the earth'...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.
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Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.
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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.