Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

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There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

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The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

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Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

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

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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

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One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

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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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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

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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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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

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I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

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Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

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