Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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Im Gebirge der Wahrheit kletterst du nie umsonst: Entweder du kommst schon heute weiter hinauf oder übst deine Kräfte, um morgen höher steigen zu können.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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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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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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I am almost equal to a shadow.
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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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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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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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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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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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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.