Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
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Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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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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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
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The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.