Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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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.
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness).
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.