Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
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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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Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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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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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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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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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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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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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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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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The hour-hand of life.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
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Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.