Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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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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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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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 stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen.
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.