Duty Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

14 Duty quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s fourteen terse observations on duty cut straight to the philosophical core, often challenging conventional morality. The brevity of each line makes the provocations all the more striking for the thoughtful reader.

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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which…

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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure…

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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must…

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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had…

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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity,…

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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he…

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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since…

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Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which…

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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One…

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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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