Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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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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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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I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
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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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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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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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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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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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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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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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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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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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One has to know the size of one's stomach.
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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
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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.