Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.
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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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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
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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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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.