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The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.
— Ernst Hanfstaengl
Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.
— Anne Lamott
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue is the health of the soul,
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Among austere men intimacy involves shame
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
and is something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Certitude drives people mad.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We are so fond of being out in Nature because it has no opinions of us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who loves like a woman becomes thereby a slave ; a woman, however, who loves like a woman becomes thereby a more perfect woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
— 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
A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I am of today and of the has-been (he said then); but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.
— Zoltan Istvan
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership. [408]
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail.
— Michel Houellebecq
Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to know the size of one's stomach.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, all too human.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Life without music is a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
— Friedrich Nietzsche