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as soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise. Philosophy — Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nihilism is ... not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love of truth is something fearsome and mighty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues, - for thou wilt succumb by them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have forgotten my umbrella. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play — Friedrich Nietzsche

You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage — Friedrich Nietzsche

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All philosophy is a form of confession. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Your educators can only be your liberators. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore. — Friedrich Nietzsche

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn - to laugh! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Discontent is the seed of ethics. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas- — Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am one thing, my writings are another. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. — Friedrich Nietzsche