Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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Man must become better and more evil.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.