Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

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O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight....

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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

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In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

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Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

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The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

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But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

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The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

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I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

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Architecture is a kind of oratory in forms, sometimes persuading or even flattering, sometimes simply commanding.

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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

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The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

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