Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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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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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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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
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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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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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Every word is a prejudice.
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We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
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One has to know the size of one's stomach.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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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 demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?