Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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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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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
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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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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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Um aber unsere Klassiker so falsch beurteilen und so beschimpfend ehren zu können, muß man sie gar nicht mehr kennen: und dies ist die allgemeine Tatsache. Denn sonst müßte man wissen, daß es nur eine Art gibt, sie zu ehren, nämlich dadurch, daß man fortfährt, in ihrem Geiste und mit ihrem Mute zu suchen, und dabei nicht müde wird.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
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Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! -Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …
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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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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.
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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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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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.