Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Hero Quotes, Tree Quotes

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

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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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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

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A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

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But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

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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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There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

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