Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 24

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Christianity is called the religion of pity. View quote
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. View quote
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We must be physicists in order. . . to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. View quote
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. View quote
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. View quote
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The melancholia of everything completed. View quote
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. View quote
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I have forgotten my umbrella. View quote
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. View quote
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance. View quote
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Your educators can only be your liberators. View quote
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. View quote
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men. View quote
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. View quote
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Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy. View quote
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection in select cases he worships himself in it.... 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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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends? View quote
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. View quote
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. View quote
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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. View quote
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer. View quote
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. View quote
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