Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
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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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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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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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We can destroy only as creators.
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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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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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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
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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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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.