Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.
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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.