Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Pain Quotes, Humanity Quotes

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

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A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

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The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

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Great intellects are skeptical.

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

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Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

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The last Christian died on a cross.

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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

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I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

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