Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Life Quotes, Past Quotes

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

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Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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Remain true to the earth.

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

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