Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 28

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book - what everyone else does not say in a whole book. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. View quote
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light. View quote
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The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. View quote
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I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me. View quote
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They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! View quote
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. View quote
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. View quote
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. View quote
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... View quote
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. View quote
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height. View quote
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I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul. View quote
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. View quote
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it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally. View quote
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First principle: one must need to be strong - otherwise one will never become strong. - Those large hothouses [Treibhäuser] for the strong, for the strongest kind of human being that has ever been, the aristocratic commonwealths of the type of Rome or Venice, understood freedom exactly in the sense in which I understand the word freedom: as something one has and does not have, something one wants, something one conquers... View quote
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Do not forget, man, consumed by lust: you-are the stone, the desert, are death ... View quote
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a man becomes impossible to get hold of, since he is wholly exterior, without kernel: a tattered, painted bag of clothes; a decked-out ghost that cannot inspire even fear and certainly not pity. View quote
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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole. View quote
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them. View quote
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Whoever is completely and wholly an artist is to all eternity separated from the "real," the actual; on the other hand, one can understand how he may sometimes weary to the point of desperation of the eternal "unreality" and falsity of his innermost existence- and that then he may well attempt what ia most forbidden him, to lay hold of actuality, for once actually to be. View quote
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Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty. View quote
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Life and experience. If one notices how some individuals know how to treat their experiences (their insignificant everyday experiences) so that these become a plot of ground that bears fruit three times a year; while others (and how many of them!) are driven through the waves of the most exciting turns of fate, of the most varied currents of their time or nation, and yet always stay lightly on the surface, like cork: then one is finally tempted to divide mankind into a minority (minimality) of those people who know how to make much out of little and a majority of those who know how to make a little out of much; indeed, one meets those perverse wizards who, instead of creating the world out of nothing, create nothing out of the world. View quote
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