Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

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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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

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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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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

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A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

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