Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

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Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

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I am almost equal to a shadow.

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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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One who has a why can endure anyhow.

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If you know the why, you can live any how.

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

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Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

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