Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

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We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

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The universe without music would be madness.

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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

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The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

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Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

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