Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Wise Quotes

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

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Life without music is no life at all.

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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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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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

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Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

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The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

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Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

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