Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 21

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? View quote
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. View quote
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Love, too, has to be learned. View quote
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. View quote
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. View quote
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. View quote
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. View quote
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. View quote
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. View quote
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. View quote
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. View quote
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. View quote
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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. View quote
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. View quote
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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. View quote
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly. View quote
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine. View quote
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. View quote
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. View quote
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. View quote
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. View quote
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