Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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Do I still have to add that in the entire New Testament there is only one solitary figure one is obliged to respect? Pilate, the Roman governor. To take a Jewish affair seriously — he cannot persuade himself to do that. One Jew more or less — what does it matter?... The noble scorn of a Roman before whom an impudent misuse of the word 'truth' was carried on has enriched the New Testament with the only expression which possesses value — which is its criticism, its annihilation even: 'What is truth?...

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New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?

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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.

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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies— and thus become silent.

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Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

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Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed...

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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

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Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new "things."

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One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers.

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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner.

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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

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Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

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