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Great Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
“A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”
“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”
“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”
“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
Popular Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.”
“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth, a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
“Art is the proper task of life.”
“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
“Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.”
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”
“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
“Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.”
“Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.”
“Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.”
“‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?”
“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”
Nice Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
“Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
“In Christianity, neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
“Fear is the mother of morality.
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
“For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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