Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.
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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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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
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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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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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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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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.