Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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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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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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Every word is a prejudice.
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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
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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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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
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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.