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#1

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: arguement, debate, disagreement, dispute, heat, ice, thoughts

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#2

“And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#3

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: capital-punishment, death, life, right-to-die, suicide

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#4

“The one necessary thing.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#5

“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: beethoven, music

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#6

“It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#7

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: truth, truths

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#8

“The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#9

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: adversary, politics, value, values, virtue

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#10

“Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#11

“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: opinions

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#12

“It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#13

“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#14

“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: art, discovery, enthusiasm, interest, passion, science

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#15

“The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: afterlife, hell, intimidation

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#16

“The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: humor, wit, witty

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#17

“Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#18

“Lonely now and miserably self-distrustful, I took sides, not without resentment, against myself and for everything that hurt me and was hard to me.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#19

“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: life-partnerships, love, marriage, relationships

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#20

“Why are we not satisfied when life mirrors itself peacefully in a deep lake? …How seldom do we now meet a person who can keep living so peacefully and cheerfully with himself even amidst the turmoil, saying to himself like Goethe: ‘The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#21

“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#22

“All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: books, life

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#23

“It is obvious that my head does not stand properly on my shoulders; for it is well known that everyone else knows better than I what I should do and not do: only I, poor rogue, do not know what I should be at. Are we not all like statues with the wrong heads on them? Isn't that so, my dear neighbor? - But no, you, precisely you, are the exception.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#24

“It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: knowledge, metaphysics

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#25

“That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: suffering

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#26

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#27

“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

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

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#28

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

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#29

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche

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#30

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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