Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Strong Quotes, Persistence Quotes

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

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no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

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The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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The Antichrist, Section 7

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Art is the proper task of life.

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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

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