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Causes Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they…
- The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
- Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than…
- If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake…
- Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
- We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form…
- With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is…
- The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences…
- At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
- Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
- You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
- Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely…
- The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
- When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
- It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr…
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