Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 27

Remain true to the earth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk. View quote
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If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. View quote
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe --the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. . . View quote
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. View quote
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. View quote
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Active, successful natures act, not according to the dictum know thyself, but as if there hovered before them the commandment will a self and thou shalt become a self. View quote
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry. View quote
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. View quote
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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit. View quote
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting! (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The English are the nation of consummate cant. View quote
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! View quote
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength. View quote
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Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man. View quote
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Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination. View quote
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We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us. View quote
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What does man actually know about himself? View quote
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you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? View quote
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. View quote
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My conception of freedom. - The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Those who deny chance. - 'No victor believes in chance.' View quote
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint. View quote
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God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. View quote
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself. View quote
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