Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
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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.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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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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Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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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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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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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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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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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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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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...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.