Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Art Quotes, Revenge Quotes

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

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It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

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Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

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God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

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