Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 62

• I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Arrogant, Coarse

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

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  Boredom, Great Day, Would Be

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• The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

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  Lying, Evil, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

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  Improvement, Feels, Miscellaneous

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• The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

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  Lying, Humility, Humanity

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• With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

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  Three, Legs, Four

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• In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

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  Heart, Should Have, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

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• Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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  Wind, Purpose, Sail

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• A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

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  Destiny, Men, Decision

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

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  Hero, Tree, Doe

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• All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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  Tasks, Hierarchy, Philosopher

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• I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

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  Beautiful, Amor, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.223, Vintage

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• You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

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  Hate, Jew

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• Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

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  Pain, People, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

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• Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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  Truth, Existentialism, Shallow

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 126, 1882.

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• Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

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  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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  Mistake, Errors, Lasts

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

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  Rain, Creativity, Sunshine

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• If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

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  Self, Soul, Events

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• The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

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  Real, Order, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

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  Evening

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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• This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

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  Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

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• In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

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  Laughter, Evil, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.210, Penguin

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• The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

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  Men, Term, Defence

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• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

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