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Oneself Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
- One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
- One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
- One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
- Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
- One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of…
- I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie…
- One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
- One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
- Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
- Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest…
- Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim…
- One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of…
- When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must…
- One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
- What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
- Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of…
- Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
- The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself…
- Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself
- It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
- One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
- When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your…
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- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin
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- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
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- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
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