Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Pain Quotes, Pride Quotes

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

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Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

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Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

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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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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

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You shall become the person you are.

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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

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