Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 59

• To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

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  Average, Soul, Together

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

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  Pain, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.160, e-artnow

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• The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

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  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

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• You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

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  Dark, Clouds, Light

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• The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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  Beautiful, Artist, Criminals

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

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• We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

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  Evaluate, Values

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• Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

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  Reality, Language, Distortion

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• Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

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  Evil, Want, Goodness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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• The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

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  Animal, Thinking, Boredom

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• Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

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  Disappointment, Past, Imagination

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• Christianity is called the religion of pity.

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  Philosophical, Christianity, Pity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

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• I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

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  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

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  Quality, Vices, Virtue

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• Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

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  Knowledge, Thinking, Matter

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

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  Eye, Self, Ears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

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• No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

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  Years, Ideas, Mysterious

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.255, Vintage

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• If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

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  Positive, Long, Looks

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• One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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  Fear, Vanity, Average

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

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  Giving, Birth, Conditions

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• More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

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  Philosophy, Greatness, Men

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• It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

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  Jesus, Mean, Interesting

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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.

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  Men, Metaphor, Instant

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

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  May, Way, Tradition

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

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  Men, World, Finance

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

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  Lying, Men, World

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