Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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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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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.