Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Lying Quotes, Hero Quotes

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

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If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

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Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

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