Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Book Quotes, Thoughtful Quotes

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

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If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

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