Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget[...] Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine 'love of one's enemies' is possible—supposing it to be possible at all on earth. How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!—and such reverence is a bridge to love.—For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor!

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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

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Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

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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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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

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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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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...

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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach...

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

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