Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie."

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil consc...
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in ...
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he ...
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens...
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch up...
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debat...
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solv...
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the ru...
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them sh...
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has le...
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the...
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those wi...
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is...
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a le...
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...
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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a...
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does n...
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O man! Take heed!
What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?
I slept my sleep--,
From deepest...
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
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Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Apho...
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Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, a...
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to acc...
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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
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And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endan...
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which...
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; ...
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not e...
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as some...
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of th...
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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I have used these weeks to revalue values. Do you understand this expression? When you come right do...
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking h...
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a bo...
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher polit...
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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent f...
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to mar...
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Better know nothing than half-know many things
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruc...
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place...
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with trut...
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you...
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in ...
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, b...
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchen...
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian,...
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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all th...
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Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the ru...
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
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Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
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I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
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The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
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When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
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Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
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My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
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Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
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A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
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We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
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Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

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