Ought Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

16 Ought quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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When Nietzsche turns his sharp eye toward what we 'ought' to do, he strips away convention to reveal the raw tension between duty and desire. This selection captures his relentless questioning of authority and the call for authentic self‑creation.

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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge.…

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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be…

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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been…

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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for…

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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to…

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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who…

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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?…

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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,…

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We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…

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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.”

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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.”

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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…

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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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