Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
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Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.