Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

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One must have a chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?'... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!

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What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

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The day's length. If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.

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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required—acting as though we do not see through the motives of their actions.

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

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Enemies of truth. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

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Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.

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The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.

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Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

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