Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 34

My time has not yet come either some are born posthumously. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. View quote
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All good things were at one time bad things every original sin has developed into an original virtue. View quote
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science Oh, how much it is expected to hide. View quote
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It was modesty which in Greece invented the word philosopher and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato. View quote
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness. View quote
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts. View quote
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. View quote
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible it concentrates it increases the feeling of estrangement it strengthens the power of resistance. View quote
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. View quote
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Physician, help yourself thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. View quote
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold. View quote
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Morality in Europe today is herd morality. View quote
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You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass. View quote
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths they haven't any. View quote
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The newspaper reader says this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts. View quote
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs Do not get yourselves carried aloft do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads. View quote
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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has. View quote
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In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak but for that, one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks. View quote
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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
In Germany there is much complaining about my "eccentricities." But since it is not known where my center is, it won't be easy to find out where or when I have thus far been "eccentric." That I was a philologist, for example, meant that I was outside my center (which fortunately does not mean that I was a poor philologist). Likewise, I now regard my having been a Wagnerian as eccentric. It was a highly dangerous experiment; now that I know it did not ruin me, I also know what significance it had for me - it was the most severe test of my character. View quote
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The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men, thus deceiving them concerning the value of existence. For this pride contains within itself the most flattering estimation of the value of knowing. Deception is the most general effect of such pride, but even its most particular effects contain within themselves something of the same deceitful character. View quote
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Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities? It is only by means of forgetfulness that man can ever reach the point of fancying himself to possess a "truth" of the grade just indicated. If he will not be satisfied with truth in the form of tautology, that is to say, if he will not be content with empty husks, then he will always exchange truths for illusions. View quote
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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins. View quote
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