Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes
393 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche quotes:
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
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"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live."
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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
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"Plato was a bore."
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
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"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."
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"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities."
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you."
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"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
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"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
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"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?"
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."
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"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
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