Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
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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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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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Become who you are!
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
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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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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.