Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Those who create are hard of heart.
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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future 'masters of the earth'...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth.
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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
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Sleep is no mean art.
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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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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
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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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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.