Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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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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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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One has to know the size of one's stomach.
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
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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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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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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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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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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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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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The last Christian died on a cross.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!