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The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman was God's second mistake.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those wi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE O man! Take heed!
What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?
I slept my sleep--,
From deepest...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not e...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as some...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher polit...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with trut...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, b...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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