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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Is man one of
God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always
consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad
night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough
to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my ambition
to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack
of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It says nothing
against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Judgments, value
judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never
be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into
consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are
stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us beware of
saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a
species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind;
friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love matches, so
called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is rare in
individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a man fails
as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many are stubborn
in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the
herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is not
an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No one lies so
boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not by wrath does
one kill, but by laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not
desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have
everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are
and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and
will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not when truth is
dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade
into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been
purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of
freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is
beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it
is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second:
nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment
is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is
written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains
of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point
higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will
be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was
God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay
dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still
alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes
tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still
have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One often
contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in
which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One should die
proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Only sick music
makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our treasure lies
in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither,
being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of damp and
gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us,
conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we
know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the
thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that
grow in him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have
given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to
ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know
best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he
had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know why
it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to
invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely the
least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a
moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a
friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no
mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success has always
been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about
oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does
not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The "kingdom of
Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon
the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in
which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity";
my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a
book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best weapon
against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian
resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and
bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire to
create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If
one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one
nonetheless does very much. There exists above the "productive" man a
yet higher species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone
learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all
beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The future
influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The growth of
wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has
always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If
you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no
price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality
of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of
it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a
condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of
knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate
his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common
lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an
exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most spiritual
human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by
far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason
that they honor life, because it brings against them its most
formidable weapons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The newspaper
reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this.
My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is
already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The press, the
machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year
conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to
corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who
think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants
two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the
most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The word
"Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has
been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no
eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no
facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot be a
God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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