Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Every word is a prejudice.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

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Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

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THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

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These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

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