Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint.
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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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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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
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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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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
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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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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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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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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.
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.