Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Self Quotes, Order Quotes

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

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The pure soul is a pure lie.

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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

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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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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

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I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

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