Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

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Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

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The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

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