Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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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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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases — which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects.

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

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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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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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