Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every word is a prejudice.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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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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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.
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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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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
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Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! -Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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Become who you are!