Top 60 Nietzsche Best Sayings
#1. The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it even with the best right but without inner constraint proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring to the point of recklessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist' ... I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!
And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.
Eckhart Tolle
#22. I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?
Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men. Little
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. 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 on a peace of mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. 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
#39. Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes;better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. Worldly Wisdom
Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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