Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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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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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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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
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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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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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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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Humility has the toughest hide.
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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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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.