Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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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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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

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.. an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!'... the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE... The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.

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

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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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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All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul."

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

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Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live. What is required for that is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity.

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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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