Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Friedrich Nietzsche, a master of diverse forms, explored philosophy, poetry, and criticism. Known for his aphoristic style and challenging ideas, he critiqued conventional notions of truth, morality, and religion. He embraced life’s “Dionysian” chaos while recognizing “Apollonian” order, and envisioned the “Übermensch” who transcends societal constraints. Influenced by diverse figures, his work spanned various disciplines. However, his sister’s biased manipulations posthumously linked his ideas to harmful ideologies, requiring scholarly efforts to restore his true message. Despite challenges, Nietzsche’s impact on philosophy, art, and more continues to resonate in the 21st century.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
1. “Become who you are.”
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2. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
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3. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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4. “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
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5. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
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6. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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7. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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8. “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
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9. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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10. “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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11. “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
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12. “I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
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13. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
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14. “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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15. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
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16. “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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17. “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”
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18. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
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19. “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason, he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
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20. “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
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21. “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
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22. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
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23. “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
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24. “That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
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25. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
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26. “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”
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27. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
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28. “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
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29. “Man is the cruelest animal.”
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30. “Live dangerously.”
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31. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
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32. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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33. “Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
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34. “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
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35. “What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are’.”
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36. “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
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37. “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
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38. “The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
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39. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
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40. “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
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41. “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
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42. “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
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43. “Art is the proper task of life. ”
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44. “God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”
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45. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
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46. “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
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47. “And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”
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48. “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler.”
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49. “One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
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50. “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
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51. “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
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52. “If you know the why, you can live anyhow.”
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53. “What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”
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54. “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
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55. “Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
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56. “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
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57. “Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
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58. “I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
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59. “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
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60. “There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
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61. “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
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62. “Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
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63. “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
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64. “Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”
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65. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
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66. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
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67. “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
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68. “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
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69. “One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.”
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70. “What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”
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71. “Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
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72. “As long as you still experience the stars as something “above you”, you lack the eye of knowledge.”
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73. “If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.”
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74. “One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”
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75. “A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
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76. “Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
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77. “If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.”
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78. “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
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79. “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.”
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80. “There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”
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81. “Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
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82. “All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
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83. “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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84. “Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
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85. “Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”
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86. “The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
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87. “Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”
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88. “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
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89. “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
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90. “Only sick music makes money today.”
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91. “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
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92. “We do not place special value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
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93. “No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”
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94. “The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
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95. “The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.”
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96. “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”
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97. “I am one thing, my writings are another.”
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98. “He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
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99. “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
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100. “You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
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101. “He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”
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102. “A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
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103. “The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
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104. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
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105. “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fate: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it – all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary – but love it.”
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106. “Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
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107. “There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”
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108. “No artist tolerates reality.”
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109. “Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.”
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110. “The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
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111. “Become who you are. Make what only you can make.”
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112. “What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”
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113. “Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
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114. “Everything matters. Nothing’s important.”
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115. “I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.”
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116. “Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.”
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117. “Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.”
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118. “My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
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119. “All great men are play actors of their own ideal.”
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120. “Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.”
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121. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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122. “On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
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123. “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
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124. “Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.”
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125. “Was that life? Well then, once more!”
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126. “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
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127. “Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.”
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128. “I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.”
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129. “The doer alone learneth.”
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130. “From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
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131. “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
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132. “Plato was a bore.”
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133. “If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.”
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134. “Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.”
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135. “To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.”
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136. “Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.”
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137. “My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”
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138. “Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.”
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139. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
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140. “What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.”
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141. “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
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142. “Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
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143. “The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.”
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144. “I am really very, very tired of everything – more than tired.”
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145. “Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.”
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146. “Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.”
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147. “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
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148. “What makes us heroic? – Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”
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149. “But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the “heavenly high jubilation,” must also be ready to be “sorrowful unto death”?”
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150. “The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”
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151. “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
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152. “A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”
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153. “But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs – is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.”
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154. “The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.”
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155. “He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.”
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156. “The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
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157. “The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.”
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158. “I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”
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159. “Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that’s who you become most like.”
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160. “By losing your goal, You have lost your way.”
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161. “Yes, life is a woman!”
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162. “In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
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163. “We are so fond of being out among nature because it has no opinions about us.”
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164. “To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.”
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165. “Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.”
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166. “The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?”
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167. “The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”
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168. “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.”
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169. “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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170. “Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”
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171. “You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?”
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172. “The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”
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173. “In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play.”
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174. “But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep – into evil.”
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175. “In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”
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176. “There’s no defense against stupidity.”
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177. “This world is the will to power and nothing besides!”
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178. “Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”
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179. “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
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180. “Never trust a thought that didn’t come by walking.”
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181. “For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.”
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182. “Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.”
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183. “A life without music is an error.”
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184. “The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. – What does not destroy makes me stronger.”
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185. “The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.”
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186. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
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187. “Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.”
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188. “When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
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189. “A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.”
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190. “In solitude, there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.”
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191. “The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
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192. “Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”
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193. “One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”
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194. “You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.”
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195. “Man makes god in his own image.”
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196. “I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.”
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197. “Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”
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198. “I am not a human being, I am dynamite.”
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199. “It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”
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200. “Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome.”
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201. “Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.”
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202. “Human, all too human.”
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203. “Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”
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204. “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
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205. “Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.”
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206. “If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”
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207. “The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”
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208. “Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”
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209. “One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
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210. “Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”
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211. “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
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212. “There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”
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213. “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
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214. “Happiness is the feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.”
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215. “Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.”
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216. “One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.”
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217. “For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!”
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218. “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
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219. “Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”
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220. “The best friend will probably acquire the best wife because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”
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221. “Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman – a rope over an abyss.”
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222. “Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”
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223. “Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!”
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224. “I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous – a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
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225. “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
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226. “Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
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227. “I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”
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228. “He who obeys does not listen to himself!”
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229. “The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’”
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230. “Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.”
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231. “Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.”
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232. “In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because I am enlightened by my intelligence.”
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233. “Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.”
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234. “Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
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235. “Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.”
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236. “The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.”
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237. “Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.”
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238. “The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.”
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239. “All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.”
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240. “The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it – what it costs us.”
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241. “The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.”
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242. “Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.”
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243. “God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”
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244. “All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.”
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245. “Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
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246. “In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
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247. “Your educators can only be your liberators.”
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248. “One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.”
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249. “Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.”
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250. “I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
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