Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Acting Quotes, Benefits Quotes

I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

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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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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

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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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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

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Righteousness exalteth a nation.

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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

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