Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Pain Quotes, Mean Quotes

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

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

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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

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THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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

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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

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The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

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