Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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All words are prejudices.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
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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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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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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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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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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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Every word is a prejudice.
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The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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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.