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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our powers of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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