Friedrich Nietzsche quotes - page 5

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Art is the proper task of life.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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We are always in our own company.
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war I tell you it is the good war that hallows every cause.
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
There is not even enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.
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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Success has always been a great liar.
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