Top 25 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche of 2485 - Page 88

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth, Errors, Way

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

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Order, Next, Birth

Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.170, 谷月社

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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Eye, Iron, Promise

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

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Drinking, People, Poison

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

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Secret, Neighbor, Mood

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

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Truth, Lying, Mouths

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

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Goal, Pathways, Obstinacy

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

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Courage, Consideration, Ends

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.165, Penguin

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

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Art, Teaching, Buddhism

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Modern Philosophy Series): From World’s Most Influential & Revolutionary Philosopher, the Author of The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science and The Birth of Tragedy”, p.47, e-artnow

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

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Destiny, Law, Today

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.12, Courier Corporation

To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

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Heart, Home, Wind

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.281, Friedrich Nietzsche

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

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People, Wages, Should

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

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Dream, Men, Artist

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.281, Courier Corporation

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

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Church, Twelve, May

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

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Party, Important, Failing

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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Weakness, Principles, Fellowship

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

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Evil, Doe, Horror

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

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Children, Character, Childhood

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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Greatness, Bridges, People

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

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Glowing, Misunderstood, Coal

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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Events, Height, Fallen

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

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Two, Evil, Lust

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

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Ambition, Soul, Spheres

Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.706, Vintage

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

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Endure

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stars, Thrown, I Can

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