Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Evil Quotes, Redemption Quotes

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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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

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the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

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There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

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Was that life? Well then, once more!

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God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

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Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

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But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

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In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

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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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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

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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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