"A refined nature is vexed by knowing that……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one."
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1,640 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which…
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that…
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the…
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit…
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of…
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the…
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
— Peter Høeg
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;…
— Willa Cather
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still…
— Confucius
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of…
— Thomas de Quincey
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The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display…
— Laozi
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and…
— Plutarch
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