Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

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The species does not grow into perfection: the weak again and again get the upper hand of the strong, — their large number, and their greater cunning are the cause of it.

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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity—and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.

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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.

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