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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Punishment, People, Feelings

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tolerance, Proof, Distrust

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Two, Feet, Giving

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Mean, Evil

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, Personality, Assuming

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Doe, Truth Is

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom, Eye, Yoke

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Perception, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.218, Courier Corporation

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mistake, Mastery, Performances

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, People, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation

To the mean all becomes mean.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Pettiness
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.194, Penguin

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Mean, Delight

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pardon Me, Pardon, Ifs

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Public Opinion, Culture, Substance
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.732, Modern Library

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Writing, Thinking

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Firsts, Germs

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

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

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage, Truth, Integrity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.239, Modern Library

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiration, Heaven, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.250, Modern Library

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

Friedrich Nietzsche
Exercise, Destiny, Law
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.24, Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Thinking, Religion
'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 130

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal, Philosopher, Cynicism
"Untimely Meditations". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, cited in Peter Sloterdijk, "Critique of Cynical Reason" (1987) p.9, 1876.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Psychologist

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Voice, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.180, e-artnow

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