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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness, Results, Certainty

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Strong, Quality
"Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Evil, Body

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Time, Past
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Causes, Doe

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Chance, Welcome, Pot

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Men, Treasure
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.451, Modern Library

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

Friedrich Nietzsche
Justice Equality, Doctrine, Would Be
Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, Great Work, Great Art

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Doe, Transport

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Peaceful, Conditions
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Compassion, Shells, Should
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fall, Men, Long

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mistake, Hands, Birth
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.330, Penguin

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Important, Encounters

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Joy, Life Is, Drink

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit, Worms, Fallibility
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.292, Cambridge University Press

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, People, Boredom

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Opinion, Existence
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Overcoming, Want
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Desire, Cost
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Crazy, Rights

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sick, Sickness, Refinement
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sea, Land, Long

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Death, Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

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