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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All words are prejudices.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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"?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
