Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are addressed should be big and tall of stature.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
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In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
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Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.
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He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
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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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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to Hashish.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
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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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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.
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