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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.
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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 thespirit 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.
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The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
— Friedrich Nietzsche