Quotations from
Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy & science, with substantial influence within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism, and post-modernism. Nietzsche's works remain controversial, partly from the uniquely provocative style of his philosophical writing.

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“Every great philosophy [is] the personal confession of its originator,
a type of involuntary and unaware memoirs.”  {Issue #21}
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“You must carry a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star.”  {Issue #28}
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“Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages
it is the rule.”  {Issue #43}
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“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”  {Issue #46}
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“One repays a teacher poorly if one remains a disciple.”  {Issue #62}
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“Every man has his price? That is not true. But for every man there exists a bait
which he cannot resist swallowing.”  {blog 9/2008}
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“Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”  {blog 9/2008}
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“Two things are wanted by a true man, danger and play – therefore,
he seeks woman as the most dangerous play.”  {blog 12/2008}
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“Life becomes harder and harder as it approaches the heights – the coldness
increases, the responsibility increases.”  {blog 2/2010}
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“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”  {blog 5/2010}
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“This is my way. What is your way? THE way doesn't exist.”  {blog 5/2010}
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“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books, what other men
do not say in whole books.”  {blog 6/2010}
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“In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.”  {blog 3/2011}
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“Which is it? Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?”  {blog 3/2011}
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“The last Christian died on the cross.”  {blog 4/2011}
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“Truths are illusions [that] we have forgotten are illusions.”  {blog 1/2012}
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”   {blog 1/2012}
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“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”  {blog 2/2012}
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“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons,
but indispensable as temporary cures.”   {blog 2/2012}

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotations Not Yet Used on Blog

"There is one thing [that] one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge."

"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water." in "The Gay Science"

"Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood... Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read but to be learned by heart."

"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."

"I am not a man, I am dynamite."

"I am by far the most terrible human being there has ever been; this does not mean I shall not be the most beneficent ..."

"That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

"Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them, mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers."

"The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly."

"I love the great despisers. Man is something that must be overcome."

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows."

"So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another."

"We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities others ascribe to us – in order to deceive ourselves."

"How can anyone become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third of the day without passions, people, and books?"

"He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgments may be, he is always wrong."

"Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. We should learn to arrange our waking life the same way: nothing or interesting."

"To live alone one must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both – a philosopher."

"Remedium amoris – The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return."

"There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"Madness is something rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule."

"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile."

"A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth – her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."

"It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the world's wall; it was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"Out of chaos comes order."

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