Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.
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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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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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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.
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
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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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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.