Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
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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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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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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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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
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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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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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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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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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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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We are always in our own company.
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
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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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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.