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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
A casual stroll
through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A great value of
antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that
modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A letter is an
unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought
to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a
bath.
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A pair of powerful
spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A subject for a
great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman may very
well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be
assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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After coming into
contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Ah, women. They
make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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All credibility,
all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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All of life is a
dispute over taste and tasting.
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All sciences are
now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of
the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine
the true hierarchy of values.
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All things are
subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given
time is a function of power and not truth.
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All truly great
thoughts are conceived by walking.
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All truth is
simple... is that not doubly a lie?
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Altered opinions
do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do
illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality
which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained
dark and unrecognizable.
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Although the most
acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were
convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was
non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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An artist has no
home in Europe except in Paris.
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And be on they
guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who
devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones.
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And if you gaze
for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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And we should
consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And
we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least
one laugh.
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Arrogance on the
part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance
of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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Art is not merely
an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical
supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its
conquest.
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Art is the proper
task of life.
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Art raises its
head where creeds relax.
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At bottom every
man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this
earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously
picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together
a second time.
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At times one
remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to
be insipid.
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Believe me! The
secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment
from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed are the
forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Character is
determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one
has had.
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Christianity gave
Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degenerated into vice.
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Convictions are
more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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Courageous,
untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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Distrust everyone
in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
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Does wisdom
perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell
of carrion?
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Egoism is the very
essence of a noble soul.
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Enduring habits I
hate... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my
misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect,
because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through
which I can escape from enduring habits.
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'Evil men have no
songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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Existence really
is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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Experience, as a
desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves
while having an experience.
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Extreme positions
are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Faith: not wanting
to know what is true.
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Fanatics are
picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Fear is the mother
of morality.
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For art to exist,
for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological
precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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For the woman, the
man is a means: the end is always the child.
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God is a thought
who makes crooked all that is straight.
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Great indebtedness
does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is
not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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He that humbleth
himself wishes to be exalted.
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He who cannot give
anything away cannot feel anything either.
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He who fights with
monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life
a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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He who has a
strong enough why can bear almost any how.
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He who has a why
to live can bear almost any how.
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He who laughs best
today, will also laughs last.
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He who would learn
to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and
dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Hope in reality is
the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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I assess the power
of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows
how to turn to its advantage.
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I cannot believe
in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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I do not know what
the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer.
For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only
kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
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I love those who
do not know how to live for today.
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I wish to be at
any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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I would believe
only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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Idleness is the
parent of psychology.
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If a woman
possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does
not possess them she runs away from herself.
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If there is
something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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If you gaze long
into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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In Christianity
neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any
point.
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In every real man
a child is hidden that wants to play.
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In heaven, all the
interesting people are missing.
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In individuals,
insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the
rule.
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In large states
public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in
large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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In music the
passions enjoy themselves.
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In the
consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere
only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes
him.
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Insanity in
individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and
epochs, it is the rule.
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Is life not a
thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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