Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Men Quotes, Trying Quotes

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

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

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Life without music is no life at all.

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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

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That which does not destroy, strengthens.

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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

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Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

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