Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Self
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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We are always in our own company.
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What is the seal of liberation? - No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
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People used to believe in 'the soul' as they believed in grammar and the grammatical subject: people said that 'I' was a condition and 'think' was a predicate and conditioned - thinking is an activity and a subject must be thought of as its cause. Now, with admirable tenacity and cunning, people are wondering whether they can get out of this net - wondering whether the reverse might be true: that 'think' is the condition and 'I' is conditioned, in which case 'I' would be a synthesis that only gets produced through thought itself.
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I did that,' says my memory. 'I could not have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually - the memory yields.
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Anyone who despises himself will still respect himself as a despiser.
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Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.