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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Justice, Goal, Judging

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Vanity, Self
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Conversation, Good Conversation, Midwife

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Matter, Habit, Tendencies

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Men, Nausea

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, Humanity, Language

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Opinion, Individual, Conception
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.151, Courier Corporation

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Long Ago, Should Have
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.51, Courier Corporation

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Profound, Goes On, Meaning Of Life
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.329, Penguin

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Regret, Romantic Love, Simple

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Women, Cutting

Metaphysical world.- 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
Truth, Knowledge, Cutting
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Teach, God Is Dead
"Thus Spake Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1891.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleep, Two, Climbing
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.

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

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Friedrich Nietzsche
And Love, Mediocrity, May
"Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston trans., § 262, 1886.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Animal, Men

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Men, Boundaries

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dancing, Dancer, Flying

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strength, Pride, Weak

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, Men, Play

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Light, Normal

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Eyeglasses, Years

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, Space, Causality
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Errors, Kind, Life Is
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.379, Vintage

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