Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 11

• To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

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• Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

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  Achievement, Steps, Sincerity

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• Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

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  Clever, Winning, People

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• To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

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  Crazy, Mad, Leaving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

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• When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

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  Good Friend, Reality, Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

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  Women, Forget, Whips

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• A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

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  Inspirational, Science, Coaching

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy (1964). “Complete works: The first complete and authorised English translation”

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• I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

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  Fancy, Superficial, Despise

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• It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

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  Courage, Indulge In, Wickedness

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• Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

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  Lying, Ignorance, Black

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.70, Booklassic

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• The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

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  Women, Perfect, Literature

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• The melancholia of everything completed!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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• Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

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  Smooth, Expertise

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• We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

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  Hate, Long, Equal

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• O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

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  Brother, Pain, Fall

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• To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

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  Suffering, Principles, Doe

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• The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

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  Mean, Warrior, Acceptance

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

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• Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

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  Art, Character, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.67, Penguin

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• Become who you are!

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  Who You Are

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.215, Penguin

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• Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

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  Heaven, Hell, Found

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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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  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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  Opposites, Knowing, Leaving

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.83, Regnery Publishing

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• The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

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  War, Skills, Overcoming

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• The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

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  Beauty, Winning, Style

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• One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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  Vanity, Honest, Shame

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.46, Hackett Publishing

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