Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Majority Quotes, Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

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It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

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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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Art is the great stimulus to life.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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