Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Distance Quotes, Blessed Quotes

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.

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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

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Every past is worth condemning.

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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

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In the end one only experiences oneself.

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