Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
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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.
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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
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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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We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
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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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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
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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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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.