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> [Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/religious-war-has-signified-the-greatest-advance-of-the-masses-so-far/)

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> [Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/everything-which-distinguishes-man-from-the-animals-depends-upon-this/)

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> [How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/how-i-understand-the-philosopher-as-a-terrible-explosive-endangering/)

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> [There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/there-is-only-a-perspective-seeing-only-a-perspective-knowing-and-the/)

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> [All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/all-contempt-for-the-sexual-life-all-denigration-under-the-concept/)

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> [The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-concepts-soul-spirit-and-last-of-all-the-concept-immortal-soul/)

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> [In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-constructing-concepts-we-overlook-the-fact-that-no-two-things-are/)

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> [The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-concepts-beyond-and-real-world-were-invented-in-order-to/)

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> [How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/how-much-reverence-has-a-noble-man-for-his-enemies-and-such-reverence/)

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> [When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/when-one-gives-up-the-christian-faith-one-pulls-the-right-to/)

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> [But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-in-the-end-one-also-has-to-understand-that-the-needs-that/)

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> [One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-should-not-understand-this-compulsion-to-construct-concepts/)

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> [Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-word-instantly-becomes-a-concept-precisely-insofar-as-it-is-not/)

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> [Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/words-are-acoustical-signs-for-concepts-concepts-however-are-more-or/)

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> [The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-significance-of-language-for-the-evolution-of-culture-lies-in/)

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> ["God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/god-immortality-of-the-soul-redemption-beyond-without-exception/)

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> [Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/whereas-the-man-of-action-binds-his-life-to-reason-and-its-concepts/)

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> [One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-should-not-wrongly-reify-cause-and-effect-as-the-natural/)

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> [In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-those-days-it-was-possible-for-a-greek-to-flee-from-an-over/)

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## Other authors on Concepts

## More by Friedrich Nietzsche

> [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/)

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> [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/)

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> [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/)

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> [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/)

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> [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/)

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> [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/)

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> [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/)

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> [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/)

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> [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/)

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> [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/)

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> [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/)

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> [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/)

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> [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/)

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> [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/)

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