Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
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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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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more.
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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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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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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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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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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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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Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
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Feinde der Wahrheit. - Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit, als Lügen.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.