Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

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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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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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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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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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Do I still have to add that in the entire New Testament there is only one solitary figure one is obliged to respect? Pilate, the Roman governor. To take a Jewish affair seriously — he cannot persuade himself to do that. One Jew more or less — what does it matter?... The noble scorn of a Roman before whom an impudent misuse of the word 'truth' was carried on has enriched the New Testament with the only expression which possesses value — which is its criticism, its annihilation even: 'What is truth?...

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New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?

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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.

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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies— and thus become silent.

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Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

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