Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Heart Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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Christianity is called the religion of pity.

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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

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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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When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

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The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

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Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

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The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

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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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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.

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