Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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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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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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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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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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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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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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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.