Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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All words are prejudices.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
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Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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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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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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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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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.