Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Fall Quotes, Dark Quotes

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

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A married philosopher is a comic character.

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

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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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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

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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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