Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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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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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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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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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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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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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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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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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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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
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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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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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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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Thinking evil is making evil.