The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
changemindnietzsche
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
betrayalfaithfriendshipnietzschephilosophical
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.
ethicsnietzschephilosophytradition
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
nietzschephilosophypolitics
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
nietzschephilosophy
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
nietzschereadersreading
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---
nietzschereligion
O puro espírito é pura mentira. Enquanto o padre continuar a passar por ser uma espécie superior - o padre, esse negador, esse caluniador, esse envenenador da vida por profissão - , não há resposta para a pergunta: que é a verdade? A verdade fica logo colocada em cima da cabeça, se o advogado confesso do nada e da negação passa por ser o representante da verdade...
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
ethicsnietzsche
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
fearmonstersnietzsche
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
heavenhellnietzsche
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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