Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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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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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.
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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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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
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Darum hat Lessing, der ehrlichste theoretische Mensch, es auszusprechen gewagt, dass ihm mehr am Suchen der Wahrheit als an ihr selbst gelegen sei...
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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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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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.