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Merely Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
- The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
- What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
- Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty,…
- From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
- The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
- The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
- We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
- Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof…
- Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
- I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their…
- My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all…
- Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
- Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another"…
- Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our…
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