Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Men Quotes, Choices Quotes

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

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Respectability offends my taste.

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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

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For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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