Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
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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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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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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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Without music life would be a mistake.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech.
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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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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
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Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?
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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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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
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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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Enduring habits I hate. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
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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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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.
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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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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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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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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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 future influences the present just as much as the past.
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
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