Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

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One can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it.

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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

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We must be physicists in order... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

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I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

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