Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

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Freedom means that the manly instincts which delight in war and victory dominate over other instincts, for example, over those of "pleasure." The human being who has become free — and how much more the spirit who has become free — spits on the contemptible type of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, females, Englishmen, and other democrats. The free man is a warrior. —

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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.

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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure;...

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."

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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction.

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To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget[...] Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine 'love of one's enemies' is possible—supposing it to be possible at all on earth. How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!—and such reverence is a bridge to love.—For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor!

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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

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Life as the product of life. However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself - ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography.

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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

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There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of "aristocrats of the spirit," reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.

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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

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When one has a great deal to put into it, a day has a hundred pockets.

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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

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The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!

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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

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