Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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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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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
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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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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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The universe without music would be madness.
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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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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.
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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.