Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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This all took a long time or a short time. For, properly speaking, for such things there is no time on earth.

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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

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That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left foot. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two, it will be able to walk and get around.

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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

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