Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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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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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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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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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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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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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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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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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.