Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
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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.
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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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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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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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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
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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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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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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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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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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.