Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Art is the great stimulus to life.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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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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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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Become who you are!
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I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely-that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.
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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?