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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.
— Ernst Hanfstaengl
One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
— 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
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.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
— 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
Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
— Gilles Deleuze
Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A curious thought experiment ... Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
— Irvin D. Yalom
One is punished best for one's virtues.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
— Friedrich Nietzsche
beauty's voice speaks gently: it appeals only to the most awakened souls.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one's chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.
— Mike Tyson
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
— Karl Jaspers
If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.
— Zoltan Istvan
Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
again passed moons and years over Zarathustra's soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One is punished most for one's virtues.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.
— Henry Noel Brailsford
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot recognize Christianity in his (Nietzsche's) rants against the church, but I do recognize too much of myself.
— John Mark Reynolds
We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you therefore want to depress and minimise man's capacity for pain, well, you must also depress and minimise his capacity for enjoyment.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
to have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to know the size of one's stomach.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
— 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
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity is the hangman's metaphysics...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.
— John Carroll
Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no defense against stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche