Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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Man must become better and more evil.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
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Every past is worth condemning.
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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.