Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Believe Quotes, Principles Quotes

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

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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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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

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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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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

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Christianity is called the religion of pity.

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Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

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But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

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