Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Eye Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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The English are a nation of consummate cant.

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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

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Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

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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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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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