Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Men Quotes, Sheep Quotes

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

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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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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

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

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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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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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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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