Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Children Quotes, Eye Quotes

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

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Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

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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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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

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I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

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