Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Self Quotes

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

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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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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique 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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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

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Man must become better and more evil.

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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

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