Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 33

As an artistic triumph in psychological corruption ... the Gospels, in fact, stand alone ... Here we are among Jews: this is the first thing to be borne in mind if we are not to lose the thread of the matter. This positive genius for conjuring up a delusion of personal "holiness" unmatched anywhere else, either in books or by men; this elevation of fraud in word and attitude to the level of an art - all this is not an accident due to the chance talents of an individual, or to any violation of nature. The thing responsible is race. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish. View quote
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner... View quote
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ... View quote
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Dionysus: Be clever, Ariadne! ... You have little ears; you have my ears: Put a clever word in them! - Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? ... I am your labyrinth ... View quote
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The homogenizing of European man ... requires a justification: it lies in serving a higher sovereign species that stands upon the former which can raise itself to its task only by doing this. Not merely a master race whose sole task is to rule, but a race with its own sphere of life, with an excess of strength ... strong enough to have no need of the tyranny of the virtue-imperative. View quote
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The possibility has been established for the production of...a master race, the future "masters of the earth"...made to endure for millennia - a higher kind of men who...employ democratic Europe as their most pliant and supple instrument for getting hold of the destinies of the earth. View quote
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The very reason [the Greeks] got so far is that they knew how to pick up the spear and throw it onward from the point where others had left it. Their skill in the art of fruitful learning was admirable. We ought to be learning from our neighbors precisely as the Greeks learned from theirs, not for the sake of learned pedantry but rather using everything we learn as a foothold which will take us up as high, and higher, than our neighbor. View quote
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious. View quote
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One does not know cannot know the best that is in one. View quote
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But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Creatingùthat is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. View quote
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds û across shallow swamps. View quote
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravityùthrough him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! View quote
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassmentà. View quote
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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like womanÆs breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant. View quote
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What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? View quote
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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy then the success of your enemy shall be your success too. View quote
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I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you. View quote
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Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable. View quote
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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
My doctrine is Live that thou mayest desire to live again that is thy duty for in any case thou wilt live again. View quote
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides gratitude and purity. View quote
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The doctrine of equality There exists no more poisonous poison for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. View quote
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated. View quote
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