Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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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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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
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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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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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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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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
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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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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.