Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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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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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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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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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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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.