Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
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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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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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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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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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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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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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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
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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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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Die Länge des Tages. - Wenn man viel hineinzustecken hat, so hat ein Tag hundert Taschen.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.