Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Acting Quotes, Benefits Quotes

I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

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In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

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Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods.

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A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

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If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

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Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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