Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Mean Quotes

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

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It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

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We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

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The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

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