Top 36 Nietzsche Greatest Quotes
#1. One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
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#3. 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 ...
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#4. We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence.
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#5. The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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#6. The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
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#7. Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
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#9. Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
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#10. Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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#11. The greatest accomplishment of past mankind is that we
no longer have to live in continual fear of wild animals, of
barbarians, of gods and of our own dreams.
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#12. The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
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#14. I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.
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#17. So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!
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#18. But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
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#20. So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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#21. Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.
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#22. The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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#23. For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!
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#24. A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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#25. The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.
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#26. And this do I say also to the o'erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues into the mud.
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#27. Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness
they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
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#28. 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.
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#29. We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
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#30. Naked have I seen both of
them, the greatest man and the smallest man. All too similar are they still to each other. Verily, even the
greatest found I all too human.
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#31. The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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#32. To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
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#33. Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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#34. Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth.
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#35. What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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#36. When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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