Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Famous Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Born: 1844-10-15
Died: 1900-08-25
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"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.
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At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
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Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
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For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
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God is dead.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
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How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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Life without music would be a mistake.
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Man is more ape than many of the apes.
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Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
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Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
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Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Plato is boring.
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Some men are born posthumously.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by Christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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We are always in our own company.
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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do
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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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