Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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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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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Vorrecht der Grösse. - Es ist das Vorrecht der Grösse, mit geringen Gaben hoch zu beglücken.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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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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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.