Top 100 Quotes About Friedrich Nietzsche
#1. When Friedrich Nietzsche mocked Immanuel Kant for having "discovered a moral faculty in man", he inadvertently resolved Kant's dilemma of being unable to identify what exactly constituted his "moral law" for fear of offending against a charge of empiricism from the likes of David Hume.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#2. Friedrich Nietzsche got pretty hung up on the notion of human will; really all he needed were some running shoes, Lycra and a place in the Berlin Marathon.
Phil Hewitt
#3. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#4. In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.
Benjamin Wiker
#5. ... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Clive Barker
#6. Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster."
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Skip Clark
#7. Friedrich Nietzsche says, He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
Carrie Jones
#8. What is evil?' you ask.
To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?'
To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no understand.'
Then I put you back in your cage.
Josh Lieb
#9. I have done it," says my memory. "I cannot have done it," says my pride, refusing to budge. In the end - my memory yields. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes
Jodi Picoult
#10. One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Robert Greene
#11. Forgetting our objectives. - During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1844
Robert Greene
#12. Friedrich Nietzsche: "If Luther had been burned like Hus, the dawn of the Enlightenment might perhaps have come a little earlier and more brilliantly than we can now imagine.
Timothy George
#13. Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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#14. Now dare to be tragic, for you will be redeemed.' Friedrich Nietzsche Ah!
Scarlett Thomas
#15. The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE B
Susannah Cahalan
#16. What gives me the right to speak of an "I," and even of an "I" as cause, and finally of an "I" as cause of thought? . . . A thought comes when "it" wants, not when "I" want. - Friedrich Nietzsche For
Anil Ananthaswamy
#17. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
Michael Connelly
#18. Invisible threads are the strongest ties. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Jacob Whaler
#19. In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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#21. Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
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#22. The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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#23. We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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#25. It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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#27. The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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#28. One must need spirit toacquire spirit; one loses it when one no
longer needs it. Whoever has strength dispenses with the spirit.
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#30. Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.
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#31. The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
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#33. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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#34. How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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#35. We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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#36. A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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#37. So LEARN to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, ye good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter!
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#38. Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
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#39. All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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#41. What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
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#42. We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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#43. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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#46. We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner
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#48. Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
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#50. He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal.
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#52. The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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#53. You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil!
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#54. He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
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#55. He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
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#56. Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart
and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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#57. A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
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#59. 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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#62. Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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#64. Lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
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#65. If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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#67. Somebody said: About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them.
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#68. I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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#71. The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, "humanity".
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#72. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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#73. The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread to make a show of representing the whole.
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#74. The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.
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#75. A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
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#76. To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
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#77. All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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#78. One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
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#79. One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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#80. I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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#81. 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.
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#82. A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature.
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#83. It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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#84. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome.
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#85. Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately you are even just an imitation play-actor ... Second question for the conscience.
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#86. The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
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#87. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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#88. [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
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#89. The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is one which ought to be studied
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#90. How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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#91. The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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#93. We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
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#94. Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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#96. One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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#100. A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
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