Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Growth Quotes

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

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as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

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Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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