Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Liars Quotes, Artist Quotes

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

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In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

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It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

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This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

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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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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

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What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

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