Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
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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.
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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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 . . .
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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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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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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Yes, life is a woman!
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.