Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

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The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

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