Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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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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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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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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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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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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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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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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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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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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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.