Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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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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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
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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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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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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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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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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.