Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Majority Quotes, Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

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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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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

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I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

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Man is something that is to be surpassed.

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

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"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

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The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

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