Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. 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. It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Love is not consolation. It is light. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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