Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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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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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.