Friedrich Nietzsche
"One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity."
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"One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"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 viciousness!"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--and how many there are!--are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork, then we are in the end tempted to divide mankind into a minority (a minimality) of those who know how to make much of little, and a majority of those who know how to make little of much."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong again and again - the reason being they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer... Darwin forgot the mind (- that in English): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind one must need mind - one loses it when one no longer needs it. He who possesses strength divests himself of mind."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the "leaf": the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted--but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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