Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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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.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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