Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Animal Quotes, Thinking Quotes

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

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Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

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