Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Dream Quotes, Poison Quotes

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

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Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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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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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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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

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Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

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Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

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