Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Mean Quotes

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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