Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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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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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

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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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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

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When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

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A profession which seeks the truth must consider whether silence about motives and restraint in expression serve, on balance, to enhance or suppress it.

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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

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There are dreadful people who, instead of solving a problem, complicate it for those who deal with it and make it harder to solve. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should [be] entreated not [to] hit it at all.

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The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

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Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

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