Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.
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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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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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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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Sleep is no mean art.
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
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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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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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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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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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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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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.