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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual

Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Quality, Degrees, Demand
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.46, Penguin

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Way, Purpose, World

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Shame, Intimacy

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fall, Rope, Virtue

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Natural, Unnatural

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doctors, Physicians, Actors

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Age, Reverberation

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering, Indignant, Senselessness

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Giving, Advice

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

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

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Devil, Throwing, Be Careful

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, Believe, Time Flies
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Curves, Light

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sign Language, Moral, Emotion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.86, Friedrich Nietzsche

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness, Ideas, Diversity
"Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Giving Up, Self
"Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man, §5, 1889.

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Wine, Fire

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Women, Imagination

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Experience, Littles

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Work, Pride, Humanity

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Work, Women, Mean

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Stars, Distance
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

Friedrich Nietzsche
World, This World, Will Power
Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Shadow, Caves, Century
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.167, Vintage

You shall become the person you are.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Jogging, Great Running, Distance Running
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

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