Friedrich Nietzsche — Philosophical Quotes

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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.”

Profound Crowds Obscure

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.”

Thinking Writing Running

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Philosophical

“Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.”

Overcoming

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“Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.”

Power Found

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“We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.”

Should God

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“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

Ends Profound Delicacy

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Philosophical

“Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.”

Trying Water Crowds

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Philosophical

“You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!”

Needs Spring Over You

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“The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.”

Men Order Quality

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“With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.”

Three Four Legs

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“Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.”

Hate Miscellaneous Maxims

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“The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.”

Book Reading Paradox

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