Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Existence begins in every instant.
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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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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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.
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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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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
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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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Wie finden wir uns selbst wieder? Wie kann sich der Mensch kennen? Er ist eine dunkle und verhüllte Sache; und wenn der Hase sieben Häute hat, so kann der Mensch sich sieben mal siebzig abziehn und wird noch nicht sagen können: »das bist du nun wirklich, das ist nicht mehr Schale«.
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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.