Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 16

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”. View quote
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Model for others. He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love. View quote
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Our own opinions. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface. View quote
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Age and truth. Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity. View quote
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God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. - And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too. View quote
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. View quote
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. View quote
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman... View quote
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Some are born posthumously. View quote
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Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal” rights. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell':. View quote
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time - in the form of legislation and customs. View quote
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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys. View quote
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. View quote
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." View quote
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I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. View quote
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Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths there are too many antidotes to them. View quote
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. View quote
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. View quote
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. View quote
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. View quote
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. View quote
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. View quote
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