Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Stars Quotes, Pain Quotes

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

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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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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

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

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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

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The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

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