"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Absurdity
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Adversity
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Age and Aging
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Disability
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Education
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Egotism
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Emotions
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"We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Emotions
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enemies
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enjoyment
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"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Equality
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"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Excellence
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Existence
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"A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Experience
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Experience
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Extremes and Extremists
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Facts
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Facts
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fallibility
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fanatics and Fanaticism
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"If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fashion
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fathers
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fear
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"Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Feminism
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fights and Fighting
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Focus
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Forgiveness
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Frankness
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"The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Free Will
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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Free Will
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"How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Freedom
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Friends and Friendship
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Friends and Friendship
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"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on The future
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Anarchism
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"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on God
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