Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.
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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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We are always in our own company.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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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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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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Those who create are hard of heart.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.