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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Letter
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Focus
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Inaction
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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friends and Friendship
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say thus it shall be!, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past -- they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their knowing is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -- will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers and Philosophy
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bores and Boredom
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Punishment
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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Taste
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Value
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Walking
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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Opinions
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cities and City Life
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgiveness
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Merit
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arts and Artists
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arts and Artists
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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Struggle
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Uniqueness
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Past
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beggars
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Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enjoyment
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Christianity makes suffering contagious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Christians and Christianity
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Certainty
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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Punishment
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Books and Reading
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oppression
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers and Philosophy
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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Paradise
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Feminism
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Extremes and Extremists
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fanatics and Fanaticism
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Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alcohol and Alcoholism
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men and Women
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God is dead
Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism
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Great intellects are skeptical.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Skepticism
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Humility
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Self control
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He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-esteem
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fights and Fighting
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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reason
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter
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He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enemies
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Action
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Age and Aging
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free will
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance and Dancing
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal
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I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God
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I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vision
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Humankind
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Psychology
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life and Living
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Asceticism
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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Heaven
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Education
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Absurdity
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aphorisms and Epigrams
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Instinct
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Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche
God
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Suicide
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Brevity
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fallibility
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Judgment and Judges
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life and Death
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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
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Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness
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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Humankind
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Past
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts and Thinking
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality
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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Speakers and Speaking
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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
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Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity
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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lies and Lying
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Power
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Obscenity
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Writers and Writing
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Science and Scientists
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit and Spirituality
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Death and Dying
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