Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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Den Andern zum Vorbild. - Wer ein gutes Beispiel geben will, muss seiner Tugend einen Gran Narrheit zusetzen: dann ahmt man nach und erhebt sich zugleich über den Nachgeahmten, - was die Menschen lieben.
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.
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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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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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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.