Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Lying Quotes, Eye Quotes

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

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Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

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