Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Religious Quotes

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

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What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

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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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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

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Life without music is no life at all.

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